Don’t teach Dyscalculia students counting songs!

Dyscalculia: News from the web:

The story in our link for today underlines the issue we highlight in one of the golden rules of dyscalculia teaching. Never drill something that is not yet conceptually understood. Don’t teach them a song or rhyme to “remember” a math fact as they will remember the poetry but have no concept of where, when and how to apply it.

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It’s hard now

Dyscalculia: News from the web:

Wonderful story in our link for today about a tutor telling a child that the math work may be hard now but it won’t stay hard.  This is a real life application of the growth mindset concept where you tell the children not that something is wrong, but that it isn’t right yet.

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