Dashiell Young-Saver

While teaching at a Title I school on the south side of San Antonio, Texas, Dashiell Young-Saver threw out the traditional AP Statistics curriculum and created lessons on topics that his students cared about: voter power, food deserts, the Spurs’ chance at winning the NBA title, online dating, and more. That year, in a region where only 2 percent of students traditionally passed the AP Statistics exam, 42 percent of Young-Saver’s students passed. During the pandemic, Young-Saver put his lessons online. His website became Skew the Script—a nonprofit that provides free, relevant, compelling-context math lessons to more than 20,000 teachers and 400,000 students nationwide. In addition to running Skew the Script, Young-Saver still teaches part time in San Antonio and writes math lessons for The New York Times. He holds bachelor's and master’s degrees in data science from Harvard University.