Research in action on Dyscalculia

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On today’s episode Mr Barton was lucky enough to speak to Julia Bahnmuller

Julia studied psychology in Germany, where she received her PhD in 2018. Julia is a trained dyscalculia therapist allowing her to both put her theoretical knowledge into practice and to feed research and teaching with questions and input resulting from the work with children, learning therapists, instructors and parents.

Amongst other things we spoke about:

Number-words in different languages and the impact it can have on students’ early grasp of number and place value – wait until you hear about German!
What are the implications for teachers who teach students for whom English is not their first language?
And an area I know very little about… Dyscalculia

Read all about it: HERE

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Retrieval or counting issues?

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Interesting new study will be started, here is their brief:

Retrieval might not be the optimum strategy in mental arithmetic. In fact, expert adults would rather solve simple problems such as 3 + 2 by automated and unconscious procedures. Therefore, we hypothesize that children with dyscalculia might not present deficit in retrieval but, instead, in counting procedure automatization. The aim of the current project is to test this challenging position.

Read all about it: HERE

Dyscalculia in Nepal

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The research in the attached document coming from Nepal shows that the lack of knowledge about Dyscalculia among teachers is wide spread. One reason more to emphasizse the need for Dyscalculia Awareness. We have a training online which does not take too much time but gives a great introduction. Find it HERE

Read all about the research in Nepal: HERE

Working memory

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See the importance of working memory for math in the article from Cambridge math.

Although it is important for math, just training working memory will in itself not yet lead to better math results.

Read all about it: HERE

When it rains, it pours

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A study from Pakistan confirmed the comorbidity of the various learning disabilities. Which goes to show that many of the people having to deal with one of them are also usually dealing with one of two more disabilities. See the study in the link for details.

Read all about it: HERE

Learning disabilities are a connection problem

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Different learning difficulties do not correspond to specific regions of the brain, as previously thought, say researchers at the University of Cambridge. Instead, poor connectivity between ‘hubs’ within the brain is much more strongly related to children’s difficulties.

Read all about it: HERE

Relationship of reading and math in the brain

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They examined if an intervention on reading would also impact the math capabilities.

Training-related Brain activity change causing improvements

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Researchers have shown that children with Developmental Dyscalculia got better at solving multiplication problems and that brain activation changed after a two-week training using an interactive learning platform. Importantly, the different brain activation changes in children with Developmental Dyscalculia observed in our study once again confirms that we need to study this population as information about this disorder cannot simply be inferred from studies with typical developing children.

Read all about it: HERE

Visual perception is key

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Visual perception has been found to be a critical factor for reading comprehension and arithmetic computation in separate lines of research with different measures of visual form perception. The current study of 1099 Chinese elementary school students investigated whether the same visual form perception (assessed by a geometric figure matching task) underlies both reading comprehension and arithmetic computation. The results showed that visual form perception had close relations with both reading comprehension and arithmetic computation, even after controlling for age, gender, and cognitive factors such as processing speed, attention, working memory, visuo-spatial processing, and general intelligence.
Cui J, Zhang Y, Wan S, Chen C, Zeng J, Zhou X. Visual form perception is fundamental for both reading comprehension and arithmetic computation. Cognition. 2019;189:141-154. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2019.03.014

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Dyscalculia actually Dyslexia in disguise?

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According to some researchers at the University of Upsala it is. They have found that the brain of the people with Dyscalculia and Dyslexia basically work in the same manner and so they claim that Dyscalculia is not a learning disability in itself but a version of Dyslexia.

Read all about it: HERE

Higher IQ when you live in the green?

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Remarkable study here, where they have figured out that children raised in greener area’s score higher on IQ.

A 3% increase in the greenness of their neighbourhood raised their IQ score by an average of 2.6 points. The effect was similar in richer and poorer neighborhoods.

Unfortunately they have not yet found out what causes this but they state: “The cause is uncertain but may be linked to lower stress levels, more play and social contact or a quieter environment.”

Read all about it: HERE

Peer assisted Math

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Research about the strong positive effects of peer supported math education.

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Dyscalculia comes in a variety of forms

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This study investigated if developmental dyscalculia (DD) in children with different profiles of mathematical deficits has the same or different cognitive origins. The defective approximate number system hypothesis and the access deficit hypothesis were tested using two different groups of children with DD (11–13 years old): a group with arithmetic fact dyscalculia (AFD) and a group with general dyscalculia (GD).
Number Processing and Heterogeneity of Developmental Dyscalculia

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Dyscalculia overlap with other issues

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UNESCO about Dyscalculia

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In our modern, digital society, difficulties with numbers and arithmetic can have profoundly negative consequences on educational outcomes, career prospects and overall quality of life.

This brief arises from Science of Learning fellowships, funded by UNESCO International Bureau of Education (IBE) and the International Brain Research Organization (IBRO). The IBE-UNESCO/IBRO Science of Learning Fellowships aim to support and translate key neuroscience research on learning and the brain to educators, policymakers, and governments.

Executive Summary

In the 21^st century, lack of adequate numeracy skills can have profound negative consequences for educational success, career prospects and overall quality of life;
Developmental Dyscalculia (DD) is a brain-based condition that leads to low numeracy skills in the context of otherwise normal intelligence and educational opportunities;
Because of its documented brain basis, efforts towards developing effective ways to remediate DD can benefit from neuroscience findings.
The branch of neuroscience devoted to shedding light on the development of brain processes supporting typical (and atypical) learning, shows that DD can be the result of dysfunctions in multiple brain systems for math knowledge;
Training programs designed to ‘stimulate’ multiple aspects of math knowledge acquisition and the brain systems subserving it may, therefore, yield the best outcomes to effectively remediate math deficits in children with DD.

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Dyscalculia and ADHD are independent and should be treated that way

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This is not a new study but we highlight it today just to give the conclusions some more attention. The researchers confirmed that the their findings support the hypothesis that ADHD and dyscalculia are independently transmitted in families and are etiologically distinct. These results reinforce the current identification approach to these disorders and underscore the need for separate identification and treatment strategies for children with both conditions.

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Why is Dyscalculia so unknown?

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Good article by Dr Nancy Doyle in Forbes magazine. She talks not specifically about Dyscalculia but about neurodiversity in general and tries to explain why is it so unknown yet.

She states it this way” Neuroscience is a young discipline. We’re still in the process of mapping the brain. We don’t know much more about human neurology than the anatomists of the 19^th century knew about the lungs liver and heart when it comes to functionality.”

Read all about it: HERE

Hidden talents under pressure

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What causes differences in arithmetic skills (and why it matters)

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Congrats Elien Bellon with your PhD

Math and time

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A podcast from it’s all in the mind, where they explore how children think about Math and Time. So as example what they think when you ask them if they would like to have eaten a donut yesterday or would rather eat one tomorrow. You can listen to the whole program in our link for today.

Read all about it: HERE

Dyscalculia Awareness

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Great post by Natalie Kerslake, who wrote an MA ed dissertation that looked at how teachers and teaching assistants can effectively support children with dyscalculia in one primary school. Her study found that more awareness and training need to be provided for teachers and teaching assistants, to aid them in supporting children with dyscalculia. This includes knowledge of what dyscalculia is and what strategies can be used to support children effectively.

Good reason to look at our Dyscalculia Awareness Training online

Read all about the dissertation: HERE

It’s all about making these math moments

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Good site about making math moments with examples on how to actually dot that. See our link for the day.

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Visual processing is key

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The study in our link for today had as objective to find out whether visual processing uniquely contributed to character reading and early mathematics in Chinese children. The findings suggest that visual processing should serve as a domain-general precursor of children’s performance in character reading and early mathematics and an important cognitive factor for later academic learning.

Read all about it: HERE

How good does Jumpmath work for dyscalculia

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The Learning Disabilities Organization of Nigeria did a study last year and confirmed our belief that Jumpmath ( a charity from Canada) has a great program to work with children who have dyscalculia.

Read all about it: HERE

Math research

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If you want to stay on top of the research in math, check out Cambridge maths espresso, see the link for today

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New study points at Brain hubs

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The researchers discovered that children with poorly connected brain hubs had severe and widespread cognitive impairments, and those with well-connected brain hubs either had no cognitive issues or had select cognitive deficits. The findings emphasize the importance of focusing on the areas of cognitive issues when it comes to targeted interventions and less on the diagnostic classification itself—opening the door for novel therapeutics that target the connectivity of the brain’s hub in the future.

Read all about it: HERE

Changes in the brain

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New research shows that there are differences between adults and children in where dyscalculia impacts the brain activity but not where scientists thought they would be occurring.

Read all about it: HERE

visual crowding effects in developmental dyscalculia

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New research suggests that excessive crowding effects might be a characteristic of DD, independent of other associated neurodevelopmental disorders. Visual crowding refers to the inability to identify objects when surrounded by other similar items.

Read all about it: HERE

Early math just as important as early reading

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“Early math skills have the greatest predictive power, followed by reading and then attention skills,” reports a psychology squad led by Greg J. Duncan, in School readiness and later achievement, published in Developmental Psychology in 2007. Follow-up studies continue to confirm the importance of early math skills. The more math-oriented activities kids do before kindergarten, the better they’ll understand math in school. Early math skills foretell higher aptitude in high school math and higher rates of college enrollment. And a 2014 Vanderbilt study determined that for “both males and females, mathematical precocity early in life predicts later creative contributions and leadership in critical occupational roles.”

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ANS not a good predictor of math achievement

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New research with a large sample size has now confirmed that ANS tasks are not suitable as measures of math development in school‐age populations. The researchers studied other cognitive functions that can replace this as a good measure for Math development in school-age populations, read the article in our link for today to find out what they are.

Read all about it: HERE

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Category Archives: Research

Research in action on Dyscalculia

Retrieval or counting issues?

Dyscalculia in Nepal

Working memory

When it rains, it pours

Learning disabilities are a connection problem

Relationship of reading and math in the brain

Training-related Brain activity change causing improvements

Visual perception is key

Dyscalculia actually Dyslexia in disguise?

Higher IQ when you live in the green?

Peer assisted Math

Dyscalculia comes in a variety of forms

Dyscalculia overlap with other issues

UNESCO about Dyscalculia

Dyscalculia and ADHD are independent and should be treated that way

Why is Dyscalculia so unknown?

Hidden talents under pressure

What causes differences in arithmetic skills (and why it matters)

Math and time

Dyscalculia Awareness

It’s all about making these math moments

Visual processing is key

How good does Jumpmath work for dyscalculia

Math research

New study points at Brain hubs

Changes in the brain

visual crowding effects in developmental dyscalculia

Early math just as important as early reading

ANS not a good predictor of math achievement