Teachers can cause math anxiety which caused math achievement to go down

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In short the research tells us that higher math anxiety predicts lower math achievement and when the researchers looked at what is contributing to the math anxiety, they found that the student’s perception of the capability of the math teachers can create math anxiety. In the words of the researchers as follows:

To better understand the contextual factors underpinning maths anxiety, Lau and colleagues analysed data from 1,175,515 students who participated in three large international studies of achievement. The study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, found that students in countries with higher levels of maths anxiety tend to achieve lower maths grades.

The strongest predictor of maths anxiety was how competent students perceived their maths teacher to be: those with less confidence in their teacher tended to feel more anxious. Being set large amounts of maths homework, and parental involvement in homework, also contributed to anxiety to a lesser degree.

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How teachers can help children with dyscalculia

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A great article for teachers about how they can support children with dyscalculia. We also have three more options for teachers to become more proficient in dealing with dyscalculia.

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Tools for Dyscalculic cooking

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Many children with dyscalculia will struggle to cook in the kitchen as there is lots of basic math that is necessary to make sure the dishes come out the right way. Here is a page that will help them with some smart tools.

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Dyscalculia Activities

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A wonderful page with activities to do with children who have dyscalculia. It also features a video with information about dyscalculia and some of the symptoms.

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Diving deeper in neural representation of concepts

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New research used functional MRI to analyze patterns of brain activity corresponding to hundreds of familiar concepts and quantitatively characterized the informational structure of these patterns. The results indicate that conceptual knowledge is stored as patterns of neural activity that encode sensory-motor and affective information about each concept, contrary to the long-held idea that concept representations are independent of sensory-motor experience.

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