“This was an eye-opener. For context, I was in the honors section in my university. I had a growth mindset, and I took learning very seriously last semester. Then I averaged in my past 12 exams a 97%, I got arrogant of ability to learn and started doing these quickly. I was being cheap and arrogant. So the following semester I suffered a lot and didn't do as good (I had to drop Spanish and suffered in other classes). Its time I got my act together. Thanks Professor Boaler and thanks LitVideobooks Team.”
“I have been teaching high school science and math for the last 33 years. I have used Jo Boaler's book, Mathematical Mindsets, as a resources in my teaching and it has made a profound impact on the way I taught mathematics and managed assessment in the last few years of my career. Her work validates my own beliefs about teaching mathematics based on my years of observing student learning (and lack of learning).
Currently, I am a sessional instructor teacher teaching preservice teachers about teaching math and I have Boaler on my reading list. Many of my current students have shared their stories about negative experiences in math class. The research that Boaler shares in her videobook, Limitless Mind, about making mistakes, embracing struggle and teaching math in multidimensional ways provides convincing arguments to preservice teachers that teaching mathematics in new and, perhaps unfamiliar, ways is more likely to produce a generation of students will report positive experiences in the math class and will ultimately see themselves as math thinkers. I am excited to present Boaler's ideas to my students with the hope that it will inspire preservice teachers to take the risk needed in teaching mathematics and making learning limitless.”
“Finally, a way of teaching a growth mindset. I hated math in high school. I took a test and was put in an honors math class. The teacher put the girls in the back (there were only 3 of us). When we asked a question, he said we should already know the answer because he just covered it and it is in the book. However, when the guys asked questions, he was only too happy to provide the answers. I worked my butt off and received tutoring from another math teacher (a woman). I got a B + I had an A average until that class.”
