John Mighton is the founder of JUMP (Junior Undiscovered Mathematical Prodigies), an expanding educational charity that has grown to provide free math tutoring to 12 inner-city Toronto schools. The Myth of Ability is the story of Mighton’s remarkable success with this endeavour, a story whose inspiration derives in large part from the profoundly democratizing principle on which it is based: that all children – not just those with innate aptitudes – are capable of achieving sophisticated levels of mathematical mastery through a combination of positive feedback and an approach that distills the subject into the most elementary concept. Read more…