Today I want to introduce you to Eddie Woo, one of Australia’s most celebrated Maths teachers. Eddie Woo has a way of making a topic that most people think of as complex and boring, into something exciting, useful, and relevant. This is something I aspire to do with my teaching.
His teaching reminds me of something I learned at University. I struggled with the Statistics subject in my finance degree. One day I was in the library and I happened upon a locally produced book on introductory statistics that was an alternative to the American book we were using in our course. Somehow, they’d managed to present and explain the same concepts in a way that made much more sense to me. To my surprise, I actually enjoyed reading about, and solving the problems, that had been causing me so much stress when presented differently than in the textbook we were using. It was a powerful lesson for me.
Eddie Woo has a very popular YouTube channel and website called WooTube, where he shares recordings of his classes, so that people around the world can learn maths.`He also has produced many videos on his teaching philosophy and methods that are worth watching.
