Category Archives: Dyscalculia Overview

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. 

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Dyscalculia in the mud

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Teaching outside helps kids with dyscalculia engage in hands-on, real-world math experiences, making abstract concepts more tangible and easier to grasp.

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New Short Film about dyscalculia

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At just 18, Olivia Louise Curto is making waves in Irish cinema with her latest short film, “My Way,” premiering at the Dublin International Film Festival (DIFF) on February 28.

Shot entirely in Leitrim, the film follows Evelyn, a 9-year-old girl with dyscalculia who discovers an unconventional way to understand maths—through patterns in nature. Inspired by Olivia’s own experiences with dyscalculia, the film challenges traditional ideas of intelligence and learning.

A rising talent in filmmaking, Olivia’s work has already earned awards, and “My Way” will soon be available on RTÉ Player!

Read more about it HERE

Teaching reasoning strategies to dyscalculic students with low working memory level

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Dyscalculic students believe they need to memorize mathematical facts. This is due to their inability to think flexibly and their lack of knowledge about the possibility of performing operations by structuring numbers. So, the aim of this study is to teach dyscalculic students to use reasoning strategies. The study employed an instructional experiment, a research design that enables the investigation of how mental processes evolve in student-friendly learning environments. Six fifth-grade middle school dyscalculic students participated. Before the implementation, we observed that none of the students employed reasoning strategies. Over a six-week period, the application included activities aimed at teaching reasoning strategies for dyscalculic students. The implementation resulted in students’ ability to understand the relationships between numbers in addition and subtraction operations and employ various strategies during these operations. This result suggests that applying appropriate interventions to dyscalculic students can lead to significant progress and the acquisition of reasoning strategies.

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