Dashiell (Dash) Young-Saver

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While teaching at a high-poverty school on the southside of San Antonio, Dash threw out his traditional AP® Stats curriculum and created lessons on topics his students cared about: voter power, food deserts, the Spurs’s chance at winning the NBA title, online dating, and more. That year, more students at the school took and passed the AP® exam than in the previous 16 years combined.

Borrowing from his class motto of “skew the script,” Dash created skewthescript.org and posted his lessons online for free. Now, he leads Skew The Script’s efforts to provide relevant math lessons to classrooms across the country.

Dash still teaches part-time in San Antonio and writes math lessons for The New York Times. He holds a BA and master’s in Data Science from Harvard.

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