Math Anxiety

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Many children show negative emotions related to mathematics and some even develop mathematics anxiety. The present study focused on the relation between negative emotions and arithmetical performance in children with and without developmental dyscalculia (DD) using an affective priming task.

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twice-exceptional

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The concept of gifted students who also have learning disabilities (G/LD students), also referred to as “twice-exceptional” students, has become widely accepted, however only a very small number (~5%) of articles on this subject use empirical data. Much is written about this population based on very little empirical evidence and there is not yet much consensus on how to define and identify these students. The research in the link for today also summarizes a literature overview and draws conclusions.

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Missing out

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We are not at the conference from the Mathematical Cognition and Learning Society, but we are sure missing out. So we follow the twitter feed for some news and updates and saw this wonderful poster presentation floating by.

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Yes you can retrain the brain

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Many aspects of the brain can be altered as the brain is neuroplastic. “This means that the brain can change throughout an individual’s life and with the right stimuli, it can be trained to become more efficient in spite of any brain disorders or labels that one may have been born with.”

 

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