Learning and the Brain

Dyscalculia: News from the web:

Check out this informative slide show that also shows you where exactly in the brain the issue of dyscalculia develops. Many people still doubt the reality of learning disabilities but this slideshow with MRI images of the brain underlines the seriousness of the condition and the fact that it stems from the brain.

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Stop using Flash Cards, certainly for kids with dyscalculia

Dyscalculia: News from the web:

Stanford University’s Jo Boaler says teachers and parents should stop using math flash cards, stop drilling kids in addition and multiplication and especially stop forcing students to do calculations quickly under time pressure.

Good-bye Mad Minute Mondays, where teachers hand out quiz sheets with 50 problems to be completed in less than a minute. But wait – doesn’t everyone have to learn times tables? No, says Boaler.

Although her position is unorthodox, Boaler, an education professor and researcher, has spent a career trying to prove why it is the best way for kids to learn.

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