Dr. John Mighton’s work fostering numeracy and children’s self-confidence and abilities in math is widely recognized.
He has been named a Schwab Foundation Social Entrepreneur of the Year, an Ernst & Young Social Entrepreneur of the Year for Canada, an Ashoka Fellow, an Officer of the Order of Canada, and has received six honorary doctorates. A Fellow of the Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences, he has taught mathematics at the University of Toronto and lectured in philosophy at McMaster University, where he received a master’s degree in philosophy. This success in math did not come easily.