Category Archives: Research

What if it is NOT dyscalculia?

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Do you, or someone you know, find maths challenging? You may have thought about dyscalculia, particularly as the Dyscalculia Network is so good at raising awareness. However, there are many reasons why someone might find maths difficult, and it’s important that these difficulties don’t get overlooked.

In this post, I try to explain the wide range of causes behind maths difficulties, how they can overlap, and how understanding these different challenges is key to getting the appropriate help.

Read the whole post HERE

Super power of small numbers

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It seems that small numbers have superpowers in our brain and can overrule larger numbers. So, the cell for recognizing 3 will shut down the neighbors for 4 and 5 and make sure we easily recognize it is 3. Now this goes away with larger numbers.

Read all about it HERE

Groupitizing and Dyscalculia

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Interesting research in the underlying processes that make easy arithmetic calculations difficult for people with dyscalculia. It turns out that helping them by offering visual spatial clues to grouping the items, only works with small numbers. People with dyscalculia tend to continue to look at the individual items rather than using groups to find answers.

Read all about it HERE

Dyscalculia Remediation

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A new book by Flávia H. Santos and Fabiana S. Ribeiro  with great insights in the most effective ways to remediate Developmental Dyscalculia.

Read all about it HERE

What is a Feifer assessment?

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