Category Archives: Dyscalculia Overview

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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The Arabic numerals are key

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New research here showed that from all the numeracy you do with the children at home, the Arabic numerals seem to have the most impact on the development of their artithmatic skills.

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Boys and girls share similar math abilities at young ages

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There has been much speculation about whether lower female participation rates in STEM fields can be traced to an innate male superiority in math and science. But a new University of Chicago study wanted to test whether boys and girls actually show different mathematical abilities at their earliest developmental stages.

SPOILER ALERT: The researchers found no major differences in numerical processing between genders, noting “these findings indicate that boys and girls are equally equipped to reason about mathematics during early childhood.”

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