Dash Young-Saver, fresh out of Harvard, got creative at Burbank High School. Today, 400,000 students have absorbed his real-world lessons.
Dash Young-Saver teaches statistics at an after-school class at IDEA South Flores in January. He applied math to things that mattered to his students at Burbank High School when he started teaching, then made the lessons available online through a nonprofit that has reached 400,000 others.
As each estimate was shared with the class, all of them much higher than Flint officials had acknowledged, the students expressed more and more astonishment. “We analyze the data in a sober, nonpartisan way that spurs really important, engaging conversations but that doesn’t necessarily endorse any sort of viewpoint over another,” he said. “Ideally what we’re doing is we’re helping create and develop a citizenry who can do the same thing.”
He didn’t blame them. Many were from low-income backgrounds, dealing with “very real adult problems,” some of them holding down jobs, Young-Saver said. And the math problems were contrived, irrelevant and boring. Joined by other teachers, he is still doing that with the nonprofit, taking students’ chosen topics and seeing what kind of math “falls out of them,” he said. Since 2020, they have been posting the resulting lessons for free on the website, so teachers anywhere can use them.
“You’re constantly hearing a bunch of things from a bunch of different people, a bunch of different numbers, a bunch of different stats, and I think it’s really helpful now to be able to put myself in a position where I’m thinking, ‘OK, let me be unbiased about this.’”
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