Dyscalculia: News from the web:
BOLD, the blog for learning and development, has published interesting findings about what keeps children from not liking math and what to do about it. Read all about it in our link for today.
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Dyscalculia and working memory
Dyscalculia: News from the web:
Interesting conclusion from a new study:
Given that dyscalculia is a very heterogeneous deficit, studies examining dyscalculia should consider exploring deficits in WM because the whole group of children with dyscalculia seems to contain at least two subpopulations that differ in their calculation process.
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Research about numerosity
Dyscalculia: News from the web:
We know that people who can easily work with both actual quantities like objects or dots and with written arabic numerals and can also easily translate between them so between the non symbolic and symbolic information, have good math skills. Reason to look into the question how the brain codes numbers like 2, 4, 6, 8 if brain sources are used for both symbolic and nonsymbolic information or that they is located in separate spots. Researchers from Western University in Canada and VanderBilt, Nashville did an fMRI study with 139 healthy adults. They used a 7 Tesla machine, which is very powerful so a great signal noise quality. They found that for specific numbers, like 4 and 6, the same neural resource was used to code for quantities of dots and written arabic numerals and also that both the left and right parietal lobes were active, also the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and that the process is specific to individual numbers in multiple formats. Not everything can be unraveled yet and how this relates to math performance and that there are individual differences in working with symbolic and non-symbolic numbers depending on their math skills
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Embrace technology to teach children with dyscalculia
Dyscalculia: News from the web:
Even before the current pandemic started, this research was done to see if children with Dyscalculia who are being taught by teachers with the use of technology learned better than the ones who were being taught traditionally.
It is probably also dependent on what technology and they used the Geogebra software package here, but the outcome shows that it would be wise to embrace technology when working with children who have dyscalculia.
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Designing an effective app for dyscalculia
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MathFun is a mobile app created by the mobile app developer while following the Calculic Model approach for Malaysia Dyscalculia children. The outcomes of this paper view on the effectiveness of the model towards building a mobile application for these children. Usability was performed in order to assess the usability and verifying the effectiveness of MathFun. This study involved 3 teachers and three children. Descriptive analysis was performed from the collected data. Based on the outcome, it’s shows that by using the suggested model there is an increased in the acceptance and usability of the application by the children.
Rizawati Rohizan et al 2020 J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 1712 012031
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