Kumar, Prabhat
(2016)
Rich Maths for Everyone: A Review of Jo Boaler’s Mathematical
Mindsets.
At Right Angles, 5 (2).
pp. 94-98.
Abstract
Right at the start in the Introduction to her book
Mathematical Mindsets – Unleashing Students’ Potential
through Creative Math, Inspiring Messages and Innovative
Teaching, Jo Boaler describes her first meeting with Carol
Dweck, soon after Dweck had joined Stanford University as
a professor of mathematics education. By then Carol Dweck
and her team had published enough research work about
mindsets and their impact on learning. Dweck categorizes the
beliefs people have about how they think about their learning abilities in two kinds of mindsets – a growth mindset and a fixed mindset. When people have a fixed mindset (yes, people can have different mindsets in different contexts), they think of their abilities as unchangeable. In contrast, when people have a growth
mindset, they think they can learn by putting in more work and also most importantly their smartness can increase with hard work. Dweck’s work has shown that these mindsets change our learning behaviour and hence our learning outcomes.
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growth mindset, fixed mindset, plasticity of brain, celebrating mistakes, rich tasks, visualization, ego feedback, equity in classrooms, performance subject mathematics, algebra |
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Natural Sciences > Mathematics |
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Azim Premji University > University Publications > At Right Angles |
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