Category Archives: Dyscalculia Overview

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The Development and Research in Early Mathematics Education (or DREME), shares a wealth of information you can use free of charge.

See all their resources HERE

And see Dr Schreuder’s video series to Master Arithmetic with Tools at Home HERE

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Master Arithmetic with Tools at Home

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A video series that helps parents work with their children on their math problems or Dyscalculia. It splits out the various causes of trouble with math; early numeracy problem, memory, processing speed, visual spatial issues, math anxiety, and dyscalculia. Dr Schreuder offers hand-on help for all these causes and then goes on in a vast number of demonstrations of the most popular tools and shows how to use them and what to use them for. Finally, she discusses a number of programs available either in books or online that may help your child. The video series is a great toolbox to have and to use over and over with various problems you want to tackle.

See it at PracticalMathHelp.com

Effective Programs in Elementary Mathematics

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This article reviews research on the achievement outcomes of elementary mathematics programs. 87 rigorous experimental studies evaluated 66 programs in grades K-5. Programs were organized in 6 categories. Particularly positive outcomes were found for tutoring programs (ES=+0.20, k=22). Positive outcomes were also seen in studies focused on professional development for classroom organization and management (e.g., cooperative
learning) (ES=+0.19, k=7). Professional development approaches focused on helping teachers gain in understanding of mathematics content and pedagogy had little impact on student achievement. Professional development intended to help in the adoption of new curricula had a small but significant impact for traditional (non-digital) curricula (ES=+0.12, k=7), but not
for digital curricula. Traditional and digital curricula with limited professional development, as well as benchmark assessment programs, found few positive effects.

See the full study HERE

Do you know the answer to this question about dyscalculia?

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A learner exhibiting difficulty in sorting, recognising pattern, orienting numbers and shape, telling time and measurement may have dyscalculia with difficulty in………

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Memory Abilities in Children With Subtypes of Dyscalculia

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This study examines (a) mathematical skills of 2 subgroups of children with developmental dyscalculia (DD)-1 group with DD only and a second group with DD plus reading disorders (RDD)-and (b) analyzes the memory skills of both groups of children. Fifty 11- and 12-year-old children were selected from public schools in Guadalajara, Mexico. Seventeen children had DD only, 13 had RDD, and 20 were normal controls. Testing included 10 calculation and 6 memory subtests taken from the Evaluacion Neuropsicologica Infantil (Matute, Rosselli, Ardila, & Ostrosky, in press). Results indicated that children with DD and children with RDD show a similar pattern of mathematical impairment. Both subgroups had significantly lower scores than the control group in working memory tasks. In addition, the RDD group had significantly lower scores than the control group in visual learning and semantic memory. Although the RDD group scored lower than the DD group in most memory tests, this difference did not reach significance. Working memory tests (digits backwards and sentence repetition) appeared to be the best predictors of mathematical test scores and may represent a major cognitive defect in children with specific defects in mathematics.

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