Category Archives: Dyscalculia Overview

Michelle Steiner about Dyscalculia

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Do we still need to learn math now that we have AI?

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What is the value of learning mathematics now that artificial intelligence (AI) can solve almost all the questions we throw at it? Will AI change the way we think of mathematics and the way we teach and learn it? Will learning mathematics even remain relevant in 10 years from now, in an age when AI will surely play a key role? These are all valid questions, regardless of whether one is a mathematician or an educator or not. Finding definite answers to such questions is a key challenge in times like these; governed by uncertainty, by the fact that many questions have no clear answers, and that most answers are questionable.

Read the article by Rachad Zaki (the director of Cambridge Mathematics) HERE

Avoid  the TRAP of Algorithms!

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It is not our usual habit to run commercials or advertisements, but this is exactly what we have been talking about with our students and the teachers we train. Great book:

Developing Mathematical Reasoning: Avoiding the Trap of Algorithms illuminates a hierarchy of mathematical reasoning to help teachers guide students through various domains of math development, from basic counting and adding to more complex proportional and functional reasoning.

Get the book HERE

All students are general education students

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Jennifer Kurth chairs the Department of Special Education at The University of Kansas, or KU, which recently debuted a unified degree geared toward future teachers who want to serve in either general or special education classrooms. It requires eight more special education courses than the school’s traditional teaching degree.

There’s just one catch: For students with disabilities to benefit from dual degree programs like this, people have to choose to enroll in them, over traditional education programs.

Kurth says it’s going to require a paradigm shift to a philosophy that “all students are general education students.”

Read more about how teacher training is evolving HERE

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Hidden bias in standardized tests

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Marjolein Muskens has found that educational systems and teaching methods can inadvertently limit the opportunities of certain students. She is interested in students’ hidden talents and shedding light on the unintended obstacles that hinder students from disadvantaged backgrounds. Marjolein tells Annie Brookman-Byrne about her research into the bias found in standardized math tests. 

Read the whole post HERE