Have you signed up for Jo Boaler’s online course, How to Learn Math, a free 8-session online course from Stanford University beginning on July 15? Do you hope to help learners enjoy and learn math? Do you wish you had more tools in your toolkit to help others continue to develop a growth mindset?

The course runs from July 15 through September 27, and learners work at their own pace through the eight concepts. From the overview:

Concepts:

1. Knocking down the myths about math.
   Math is not about speed, memorization or learning lots of rules. There is no such thing as “math people” and non-math people. Girls are equally capable of the highest achievement. This session will include interviews with students.
2. Math and Mindset.
   Participants will be encouraged to develop a growth mindset, they will see new evidence of the brain and learning and of how a growth mindset can change students’ learning trajectories and beliefs about math.
3. Teaching Math for a Growth Mindset.
   This session will give strategies to teachers and parents for helping students develop a growth mindset and will include an interview with Carol Dweck.
4. Mistakes, challenges & persistence.
   What is math persistence? Why are mistakes so important? How is math linked to creativity? This session will focus on the importance of mistakes, struggles and persistence.
5. Conceptual Learning. Part I. Number sense
   Math is a conceptual subject- we will see evidence of the importance of conceptual thinking and participants will be given number problems that can be solved in many ways and represented visually.
6. Conceptual Learning. Part 2. Connections, Representations, Questions.
   In this session we will look at and solve math problems at many different grade levels and see the difference in approaching them procedurally and conceptually. Interviews with successful users of math in different, interesting jobs (Sophie, film maker, Sebastian Thrun, inventor of self-driving cars etc) will show the importance of conceptual math.
7. Appreciating Algebra.
   Participants will be asked to engage in problems illustrating the beautiful simplicity of a subject with which they may have had terrible experiences.
8. Going From This Course to a New Mathematical Future.
   This session will review where you are, what you can do and the strategies you can use to be really successful.

Will you let me know if you register?