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Creating awareness for Dyscalculia since 2010

Dyscalculia in the arts

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Pallav Chander’s art is a visual representation of his autobiography. His works concisely encapsulate his intense experiences with dyslexia, dyscalculia and ADHD through chaotic arrangements and bold abstract expressionism.

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At home math learning

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Check out the webpost in our link for today for some more resources to help your children do math at home. Important, certainly during the long summer months

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Pandemic impact on learning disabilities

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The shift to remote learning after the pandemic has affected children with disabilities the hardest. A recent survey in the United States underlines just how profound an impact this shift to remote learning is having on children with learning and thinking differences like ADHD and specific learning disabilities like dyslexia and dyscalculia. The survey highlights the academic, financial and emotional impact of the switch.

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Binary dot game

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Entertaining and yet very useful for their insights in patterns and sequences. See the game in our link for today.

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Go ahead, use your fingers to do math

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A few weeks ago I (Jo Boaler) was working in my Stanford office when the silence of the room was interrupted by a phone call. A mother called me to report that her 5-year-old daughter had come home from school crying because her teacher had not allowed her to count on her fingers. This is not an isolated event—schools across the country regularly ban finger use in classrooms or communicate to students that they are babyish. This is despite a compelling and rather surprising branch of neuroscience that shows the importance of an area of our brain that “sees” fingers, well beyond the time and age that people use their fingers to count.

https://www.theatlantic.com/

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