Mathematician calls for education focus in Australia Day address

eddie woo

In 2012 he started posting videos to YouTube for a student who was sick with cancer and missing school Source: Wootube

An internationally renowned mathematics teacher of Malaysian-Chinese background has delivered this year's Australia Day address in New South Wales.


Eddie Woo, from Sydney's Cherrybrook Technology High School, used the stage at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music to deliver an insightful speech, drawing on cultural experience, diversity and the importance of education within Australia.


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