Shalinee Sharma

CEO and Math Expert

Shalinee Sharma is a math learning expert and the CEO and co-founder of Zearn, a nonprofit educational organization behind the top-rated math-learning platform used by one in four elementary-school students and by one million middle-school students nationwide. In addition to her role at Zearn, she is the author of Math Mind: The Simple Path to Loving Math. A child of refugees, Sharma is passionate about universal access to an excellent education.

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Hard Science

The big myth that keeps people from loving math

Why dispelling the notion that it’s all about getting the correct answer is so powerful.