Build the foundational number concepts first

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Rather than address isolated conceptual gaps, remediation should build the foundational number concepts first,” say the authors of a Science article. In other words, conceptual gaps can be avoided by making sure the basic underlying number concepts are understood. When assessing the abilities of individual children, the authors recommend to pay special attention to set enumeration and comparison “to differentiate dyscalculia from other causes of low numeracy”.

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How Dyscalculia and Dyslexia can differ

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New research shows that the dyscalculia population has difficulties in automatically associating numerals with magnitudes but no problems in associating letters with phonemes, whereas the dyslexia population shows the opposite pattern.

Read all about it: HERE (this link may not work as their site has some issues lately)

Skills to distinguish Developmental Dyscalculia from typical developing students

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Both domain-specific nonsymbolic magnitude representation and domain-general executive function both contribute to developmental dyscalculia. Thus, both domain-specific and domain-general abilities will be necessary to investigate and to intervene in developmental dyscalculia groups in the future.

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Numbers go into space?

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Interesting research into developmental dyscalculia.

Worse performance of adults with DD in the number line task might be due a deficit in mapping numbers onto space which can be partly overcome relying on reference points.

Read all about it: HERE