Category Archives: Dyscalculia Overview

Improving student attendance

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Since the pandemic, chronic absenteeism has loomed large. Educators are seeking strategies and partners who can help tackle it. Well, getting kids back to school is one place where it’s long struck me that professional sports franchises could make a big difference. After all, professional athletes live daily with a show-up-early, work-hard routine. Indeed, of the teen and tween role models—like actors, social media influencers, and singers—athletes may be the ones with the most obvious ties to schools, colleges, and a grind-it-out ethos. The Cleveland Browns have spent a decade partnering with Ohio schools to improve attendance and launched the Stay in the Game! Attendance Network in 2019

Read all about this great program HERE

Let’s limit distractions

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Distractions have a huge impact on learning. In this article the cognitive psychologist links sensory perception and children’s learning.

Nora Turoman is a cognitive psychology researcher at the University of Geneva in Switzerland. Nora studies how different types of distraction affect children’s learning. She is investigating whether and how children differ from adults with respect to how easily distracted they are. Annie Brookman-Byrne talks with Nora about how her own sensory experiences fuelled her interest in perception, and what she’s learnt from unexpected findings.

Read the full article HERE

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