Episode 5: The Power of Mindset
Growth Mindset is defined as the belief that you can control your ability and improve. The power of mindset is huge within a classroom. How do you demonstrate it for your students?
Episode 4: Five Ideas to Increase Student Engagement
Being an effective teacher is more than being good at your subject. It is about engaging students and helping them want to learn. Here are the 5 main things to get students to buy-in.
Episode 3: Why I Started a Podcast
As teachers, we are lifelong learners in pursuit of how to best help our students succeed. That is why I started a podcast for math teachers.
Episode 2: Five Scaffolds for the Math Classroom
Scaffolding is a huge part of what teachers do on a daily basis in the classroom. Here are five scaffolds for the math classroom.
Episode 1: Why People Struggle with Math
I am a math teacher. When people find this out, 8 times out of 10, they have this reaction: “Oof, math. I always hated with math.” I explain I’m a middle school math teacher, they laugh, grimace, and praise me for dealing with these stereotypical moody and insubordinate bunch of humans.
Coming February 6, 2021…
On February 6th, I am releasing my brand new podcast called Solving for the Undefined.
Linear Equations for Struggling Students
Students have multiple opportunities to learn linear equations in the form of graphing throughout their 8th grade and Algebra 1 years. The better the foundation, the better students can build on their knowledge for future years of math.
Four Steps for Taking Action in 2021
Here are four steps for taking action in 2021 towards achieving your goals! Read how you can maximize your time to accomplish whatever you want.
Teaching Geometric Transformations to Struggling Students
Teaching geometric transformations on the coordinate plane is a challenging task. Here is how I teach them in my class: 5 steps to success.
Five Ways to Use Task Cards
Task cards are an engaging and versatile tool to help students work through a set of problems. They can be used individually, pairs, or even in teams. Task cards can be for math, science, ELA, etc. The possibilities are endless!
Hi! I’m Johanna Kuiper.
I help math teachers engage students academically using researched based strategies so students deeply understand and love math!
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