Eddie Woo is a mathematics teacher in Australia. He is known for his online maths classes on YouTube.
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Early life
Woo's parents migrated to Australia from Malaysia around 1970 for better education opportunities for their children. He studied at the James Ruse Agricultural High School, NSW and completed his Higher School Certificate in 2003. He has an older brother, who works in IT, and an older sister, who is a dentist.
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Career
Woo is a mathematics teacher at Cherrybrook Technology High School, Sydney. He used to hold the head maths teacher position at this school. As of 2017, he has been teaching mathematics for more than 10 years. His YouTube channel has over 280,000 subscribers and more than 14 million views worldwide as of May 2018.
Awards
In October 2015, Woo was a joint recipient of the NSW Premier's Prize for Innovation in Science and Mathematics Education.
He was one of ten teachers to win the inaugural Choose Maths Awards on 26 August 2016.
In April 2017, Woo won the 2017 University of Sydney Young Alumni Award for Outstanding Achievement.
In March 2017, he was one of 12 Australian teachers to win a Commonwealth Bank Teaching Award.
In November 2017, he was named 2018 NSW Local Hero.
Woo gave the Australia Day address in NSW in 2018, the first time a teacher has done so.
On 25 January 2018 Woo won the National Australia's local hero Award at the Australian of the Year Awards.
Personal life
Woo identifies as a Christian, stating, "We talk about the fact that the universe is designed in this way and you can find all of these patterns; do you think that that's a coincidence? One of the things I love to point out is we call the universe the cosmos which means ordered and structured and designed, as opposed to chaos, and the reason why we can find these mathematical principles is because there was a designer. We didn't just spring into being. It has immense beauty."
Woo is married to Michelle and they have three children. He attends Castle Hill Baptist Church.
Woo also plays the guitar.
References
Source of the article : Wikipedia