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Research has confirmed something we all may have thought. Counting on your fingers is good for your understanding of math and the number-line. Future research needs to confirm if it also helps to avoid Dyscalculia by programming the brain in the right way.
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A few tips to reduce the impact from Dyscalculia
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Tony Attwood, the dyscalculia advocate and writer, tells the story of schools that ignore his preaching or fall back into their old habits of ignoring the problem after some weeks.
His plea is for teachers to be the voice here and stand up for dyscalculia.
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Burgeoning research into students’ difficulties with mathematics is starting to tease out cognitive differences between students who sometimes struggle with math and those who have dyscalculia, a severe, persistent learning disability in math.
A new, decade-long longitudinal study by researchers at the Kennedy Krieger Institute in Baltimore, published Friday in the journal Child Development, finds that 9th-graders considered dyscalculic—those who performed in the bottom 10 percent of math ability on multiple tests—had substantially lower ability to grasp and compare basic number quantities than average students or even other struggling math students.
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Psychologist Véronique Izard discusses a study that suggests Amazonian villagers with no math schooling are just as equipped to solve basic geometry problems as math-trained adults, and cognitive neuropsychologist Brian Butterworth talks about the arithmetic cousin of dyslexia, dyscalculia.
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