Mr Woo, a teacher at Cherrybrook Technology High School, won widespread praise for demystifying maths through his videos – known as WooTube-- watched more than 11 million times by viewers globally.
Mr Stokes paid tribute to Mr Woo’s engaging and innovative approach that focuses on student needs in a challenging subject area.
“What a wonderful accolade for one of Australia’s great teachers,” Mr Stokes said. “Eddie was initially motivated to produce his maths videos to assist a student sick with cancer.”
Mr Woo is the only Australian named in the Top 10 teachers of the world in the Global Teacher Prize, an international award run by the Varkey Foundation. The competition has a $US1 million prize money for the eventual winner.
He was selected from more than 30,000 nominations from 173 countries.
