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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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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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Celia Stone, Dyslexia and Dyscalculia Pioneer

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Celia Stone is one of the most inspiring, yet unassuming women I’ve ever met.  She has changed the lives of both my husband and my daughter, along with thousands of other young people.

She has tackles every challenge that life has throws at her with pragmatism and the question, ‘how can we make a plan?’:  From fleeing the threat of violence and unrest in her native Zimbabwe in the 70’s, with her husband, 3 small children, £500 and whatever they could carry; to setting up a specialist dyslexia unit at the Yorkshire school where her husband taught.

She now has more than 35 years’ experience of working with children with special educational needs – including my husband who was thrown out of his local primary school aged 7, because they ‘couldn’t teach him’.  With Celia’s help, his dyslexia hasn’t held him back and he has gone on to become a successful entrepreneur, speaker and local businessman.  At 18, she screened him for Irlen lenses – coloured glasses which helped him read for the first time.  25 years later she did the same for our daughter.

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No writers for dyscalculia students

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Math is not the only problem affecting students with learning disabilities appear to be in a fix this exam season. Students suffering from dyscalculia are having difficulty obtaining writers for their Arithmetic paper.

Dyscalculia is a math disorder where candidates have difficulty with spatial orientation as well as the concepts involved in mathematics. The state board conducts a special exam for them where their math paper is simplified and of a lower class 7 level. Hence students are only allowed writers from class 6 to write this paper.

Parents and students of this learning disability have been calling the board helpline stating their inability to find writers for their exam on March 15. Ashwini Sethi, a parent whose child was diagnosed with dyscalculia at 12 years of age said, “We had earlier found plenty of writers, most of them my daughter’s friends, who were studying in class 9 and helped her write her other papers. But now we are in a soup,” she said adding that even if she found a student willing to write her daughter’s papers, he/ she might not be able to understand the concepts and make mistakes.

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