Making Sense of a Data-Filled World
Jo Boaler, Tanya LaMar, Cathy M. Williams
Abstract
I (JB) received a message recently that piqued my curiosity—Steve Levitt, a University of Chicago economist, famous for his book Freakonomics, wanted to talk with me. Because my contacts usually come from the world of mathematics and education, I wondered what it was that Steve wanted to discuss. What I did not know at the time was that phone call would be the start of one of the most exciting new initiatives I have encountered in my work in education, which has the potential to significantly change the mathematics we teach in classrooms. Steve became interested in
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CuriosityPhoneHappeningMathematics educationMedia studiesSociologyPsychologyArtArt historyPerformance artPhilosophySocial psychologyLinguisticsStatistics Education and Methodologies