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Have you ever felt like math education needs to take a good long look at itself in the mirror and make some major changes before everything goes off the rails? Like one of those Hollywood interventions - but for math class?

Well today's guest, Juliana Tapper, is a math interventionist! She steps in to help students before they slip through the cracks.

Today they discuss:

• what a math intervention is and how it works
• the keys to a successful intervention
• small shifts teachers can try that really make a difference

The conversation also gets emotional when Juliana reads out some of her student “mathographies” (their personal math stories), showing how powerful it can be when students are able to voice their deepest feelings and fears around math.

Links mentioned:

• Coherence by Design article by TNTP about intervention tutoring
• Free download: "My Mathography" - print and try with your students!

About Juliana: (Website, Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn)

Juliana Tapper is living proof that your worst subject can become your superpower. After healing her own early math trauma, she dedicated her life to ending the cycle of math trauma for other kids and to empowering teachers with strategies and tools that actually work for students who have been historically unsuccessful in math. She works with schools, districts, state departments of education, and juvenile justice systems to make math accessible for all. She is the bestselling author of Teaching 6-12 Math Intervention: A Practical Framework to Engage Students Who Struggle and the host of the K-12 Math Intervention Summit.

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