Category Archives: Dyscalculia Overview

Solutions for problems with IEP or 504 plans

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The Additudemag blog gives a great overview of the most common problems with IEP’s or 504 plans and the solutions you will need. Keep this handy if you don’t need it now, you never know when you may run into issues like this.

Read all about it: HERE

Graphic organizers

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Children with Dyscalculia can benefit greatly from the use of graphic organizers. Research shows that graphic organizers are a useful strategy for gifted and talented and special education populations, but really, all students can benefit from the multimodal learning that graphic organizers support. Graphic organizers are highly versatile. Students can draw them, digitize them, or adapt a teacher-designed template. 

Read all about it: HERE

Spatial skills important for a stem future

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Research has confirmed that spatial skills are a great predictor for later math or stem achievements. PBS has been so kind to devote a whole page to some methods on how to get the children engaged and working on spatial skill development.

Read all about it: HERE

Math Anxiety: Fight or Flight mode

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Beacon house shares this picture that illustrates what happens when your body gets into the fight or flight mode. This is one of the responses people have to math anxiety and from the picture it will be clear that this is distracting and will prevent you from doing any math activities until the feeling subsides.

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Mental Math

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The good people from the thirdspacelearning.com blog share some nice mental math games. We like the one where they ask the children to brainstorm relations with a specific number when working on the timestables. It is great to build those connections.

Read all about it: HERE