Category Archives: Research

Test your number sense

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The Johns Hopkins University has received a grant to support their research into the relationship between number sense and math ability. In their own words:

Panamath measures your number sense and approximate number system (ANS) aptitude. Recent research has demonstrated a relationship between performance on this test and basic mathematical ability. Through a grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation, we have made this test publicly available free of charge so that researchers can use it in their studies, educators can assess their students, and anyone of any age can test themselves.

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Various forms of Dyscalculia

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New research shows Children with General Dyscalculia have an impairment in the innate approximate number system, whereas children with Arithmetic Fact Dyscalculia suffer from an access deficit. These findings have implications for researchers’ selection procedures when studying dyscalculia, and also for practitioners in the educational setting.

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Is China the answer to our Math problems?

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A story from the UK with the writer being critical of looking at china to improve math learning. It should fit socially and culturally. Lots of research is available but there is little funding and time and thus the children who are weakest in Math will suffer the career consequences.

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Electricity to help dyscalculia

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In a lab in Oxford University’s experimental psychology department, researcher Roi Cohen Kadosh is testing an intriguing treatment: He is sending low-dose electric current through the brains of adults and children as young as 8 to make them better at math.

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