Category Archives: Research

Dyscalculia Assessment development

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Researchers lead by Flavia H. Santos set out to develop a Developmental Dyscalculia Assessment:

Developmental Dyscalculia (DD) signifies a failure in representing quantities, which impairs the performance of basic math operations and schooling achievement during childhood. The lack of specificity in assessment measures and respective cut-offs are the most challenging factors to identify children with DD, particularly in disadvantaged educational contexts. This research is focused on a numerical cognition battery for children, designed to diagnose DD through 12 subtests. 

Santos, F.H.; Ribeiro, F.S.; Dias-Piovezana, A.L.; Primi, C.; Dowker, A.; von Aster, M. Discerning Developmental Dyscalculia and Neurodevelopmental Models of Numerical Cognition in a Disadvantaged Educational Context. Brain Sci. 2022, 12, 653. https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci12050653

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Research Highlights

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In our link for today a very useful meta study done by Bert De Smedt.

  • Highlights
  • Domain-specific and domain-general factors correlate with math to a similar extent-
  • Associations are similar in struggling learners (dyscalculia)-
  • Emerging evidence suggest bidirectionality between mathematics and its predictors-
  • Theory-informed longitudinal
  • studies are needed to understand mechanisms

Read all about it: HERE

Visible math

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Our link for today is about making math more visible and a research project underway to explore ways by which teachers can change their math lessons to be more visible.

Read all about it: HERE

Puzzle play

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Research shows that children who play with puzzles are better able to imagine what something would look like if it were changed, such as rotated or flipped.These spatial skills support children’s understanding of math and science and have been shown to predict children’s success in the STEM disciplines.

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Move to remember

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Research suggests that when we see and use gestures, we recruit more parts of the brain than when we use language alone, and we may activate more memory systems – such as procedural memory (the type that stores automatic processes such as how to type or ride a bike) in addition to our memory for events and experiences.

Read all about it: HERE