Category Archives: Research

Working memory and how it developed

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Good research showing where theories about working memory are rooted in research.

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Graphic organizers

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Children with Dyscalculia can benefit greatly from the use of graphic organizers. Research shows that graphic organizers are a useful strategy for gifted and talented and special education populations, but really, all students can benefit from the multimodal learning that graphic organizers support. Graphic organizers are highly versatile. Students can draw them, digitize them, or adapt a teacher-designed template. 

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Spatial skills important for a stem future

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Research has confirmed that spatial skills are a great predictor for later math or stem achievements. PBS has been so kind to devote a whole page to some methods on how to get the children engaged and working on spatial skill development.

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Working memory and Numeracy training for children

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New research has been performed to see if computerized training of working memory and numeracy would increase the math achievement for children.

The short of the results shows that combining the numeracy training and the working memory trainining probably is worth pursuing.

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More research in what causes Math Anxiety

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This new research found that spatially structuring the verbal mind is a promising cognitive correlate of the math anxiety and opens new avenues for exploring causal links between elementary cognitive processes and the math anxiety. What all of that means, you can read in the link for today below.

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