Eddie Woo

Edward Kent Woo, or simply Eddie Woo, is an Australian educational YouTuber who teaches mathematics at a comprehensive public high school in Sydney, New South Wales. He joined YouTube on 21 March 2012 and has accumulated 1.3M subscribers and 91 million views as of October 2021.
Since November 2012, he has uploaded videos of my actual classroom lessons to YouTube to share learning resources with the world.
== Roles ==
*Classroom teacher at Cherrybrook Technology High School
*Leader of Mathematics Growth at NSW Department of Education
*Education Ambassador at University of Sydney / Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences
*Author of:
** Woo’s Wonderful World of Maths (It’s a Numberful World in the US)
** Eddie Woo’s Magical Maths (children’s activity book)
*Host of Teenage Boss
*Advisory Board at UNSW Gonski Institute
*Board of Trustees at Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences
*Charity Ambassador at ausEE Inc.
*Member of Australian Multicultural Council
*Fellow of Royal Society of New South Wales
*TED speaker (“Mathematics is the sense you never knew you had“, TEDxSydney)
== Awards ==
2019 Western Sydney University Honorary Fellowship
2019 “40 Under 40” Most Influential Asian-Australian Awards – Education category winner
2018 Australia’s Local Hero
• National ceremony – 25 January 2018
• Media scrum – 25 January 2018
• ABC News Breakfast – 26 January 2018
• Sunrise – 26 January 2018
• TODAY Show – 26 January 2018
• Sky News – 26 January 2018
• Eddie and his Wootube channel win Australia Day recognition – ABC News
• Wootube helps Sydney maths teacher scoop Australian Local Hero award – SBS News
• The Australian teacher changing lives across the globe – 4BC Brisbane radio
• Maths teacher Eddie Woo is Australia’s Local Hero – ABC Radio National
• Cherrybrook Technology High School teacher wins Local Hero award – Hills News
• Teaching needs a lift in status – Sydney Morning Herald
2018 Top 10 Global Teacher Prize
• Announcement video – Varkey Foundation
• Eddie Woo named ‘among world’s top 10 teachers’ – The Australian, 15 Feb 2018 (direct link, may lead to paywall)
• Woo-hoo! Eddie could scoop $1.2m education prize – Daily Telegraph, 14 Feb 2018
• Eddie Woo on reducing students’ maths anxiety – Teacher Magazine, 15 Feb 2018
• Aussie Teacher Named As One Of The World’s Top 10 Educators – 2DayFM interview, 15 Feb 2018
• Eddie Woo in Top 10 Teachers – Schools Plus
• Global Teacher Prize 2018 Top 50 finalists announced – Teacher Magazine
• Teachers in the running for Global Prize – The Educator
2018 Gold Harold
2017 Commonwealth Bank Teaching Fellowship
• Videos woo students – Hills News
• More Than Numbers – The Australian Education Reporter
2017 Sydney University Alumni Award: Outstanding Achievements for Young Alumni
2016 CHOOSEMATHS Teacher Excellence Award
• Excellence award for Wootube master – Hills News
2015 Premier’s Prize for Innovation in Science and Mathematics Education in NSW
==References==
Category:Educational YouTubers
Category:Australian YouTubers
Category:Users who joined in 2012
Category:One million subscribers