everyone can be a winner in the numbers game

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Think you’re rubbish at maths? Think again – without arithmetic, everyday life would defeat us. With a little confidence the world of figures is at your fingertips, says Sue Nelson.

I believe that at least some of these problems are easily solved. Because the British can count; it’s our growing lack of confidence that is the issue. The good news is that new psychological tricks may be enough to open up the world of numbers to millions.

Mathematics is perceived as “hard” – impossible to master unless you have the “right” sort of brain. Maths, like playing chess at a high level, has a geeky, cerebral image that can be intimidating. But the reality is that we do maths all the time; modern life would be impossible without it.

Our brains are constantly at work adding and subtracting, dividing and multiplying. Visit any town on market day and stallholders use mental arithmetic fast enough to rival Carol Vorderman. Shoppers evaluate supermarket offers and bargain-hunters rapidly calculate the potential savings on a 25 per cent discount.

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Teaching Math to Students with Disabilities

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“Math is hard” (Barbie, 1994) US 15 year olds ranked 24th (among 29 developed nations) in the 2003 International Student Assessment in math literacy and problem solving 7% of US students scored in the advanced level in the 2004 Trends in Math and Science Study Almost half of America’s 17 year olds did not pass The National Assessment of Educational Progress math test 2006 Hart/Winston Poll found that 76% of Americans believe that if the next generation does not work to improve its skills it risks becoming the 1st generation who are worse off economically than their parents

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Kids with Math Anxiety Show Different Brain Functions

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Kids who have math anxiety have altered brain functions, according to a recent study. Brain activity, when faced with equations and formulas from math, decreased with the panic feeling.

A study from the Standford University School of Medicine was published this week in Psychological Science, reported a brain scan was done on fifty children in the second and third grade. Researchers assessed the children for math anxiety with a modified version of a standardized questionnaire for adults, and also received standard intelligence and cognitive tests. They found children with a higher level of math anxiety had a harder time solving math problems and were less accurate compared to those children with lower math anxiety.

Vinod Menon, a co-author and professor of child psychiatry, neurology and neuroscience at Stanford said, “Children who said they had math anxiety had greater responses in the areas of the brain implicated in processing negative emotions like fear, particularly the amygdala. We also saw reduced activity in areas normally associated with mathematical problem solving.”

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The effect of a gross motorintervention program forchildren 10-11 years with DCD

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Since disabilities involving math can be so different, the effects they have on a person’s
development can be just as different. For instance, a person who has trouble processing language
will face different challenges in math than a person who has difficulty with visual-spatial
relationships. Another person with trouble remembering facts and keeping a sequence of steps in
order will have yet a different set of math-related challenges to overcome.

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Interview with Dr Keith Devlin: learning children mathematics and finding their pasison

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Not just a celebrity as The Math Guy on the National Public Radio in the US, Dr. Keith Devlin is also the founder of the H-Star Institute at the Stanford University. And, as if that wasn’t enough, he’s published more than 30 books on mathematics (e.g. The Language of Mathematics: Making the Invisible Visible and the Mathematics Education for a New Era: Video Games as a Medium for Learning) and is a columnist at the Huffington Post.

The dedicated bicycler, blogger and numerously awarded mathematician shares the view of learning with Thinkout’s founder, Rolf Skoglund. Dr. Devlin even gave his support in the book Thinkout produced in the working with Number Bonds by Thinkout.

We managed to get a couple of precious moments of this sharp mind’s time. Of course, we wanted to pick his brains on learning math and specifically children learning math, since it’s a common interest to Dr. Devlin and us at Thinkout.

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