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Guidance on teaching Math

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The Education Endowment Foundation has published guidelines for primary and secondary teachers on how to boost math skills with children. They make the following observations:

  • Pupils should master basic mental arithmetic – addition, subtraction, multiplications and division – and be able to recall their times tables quickly. Those who don’t may well have difficulty with more challenging maths later in school.

  • Pupils sometimes think “multiplication makes bigger, division makes smaller”. This is accurate with numbers greater than 1, but isn’t right when applied to numbers less than 1. So, 5 x 5 =25 but 0.5 x 0.5 = 0.25.

  • Learning how to add fractions together can often cause difficulty. For example, many think the answer to 1/8 + ½ is 2/10. Teachers can help pupils to understand that the right answer is 5/8 using diagrams which help to visualise the different values of fractions.

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Computer-assisted Neurocognitive rehabilitation not that effective?

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Intering results that will need some follow up:

The results of covariance analysis showed that cognitive rehabilitation interventions did not lead to a significant difference between the experimental and control groups in inhibitory, omission, commission and reaction time scores

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Brain activity of dyslectic and dyscalculic students more similar than we thought

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Here are the highlights of this new study:

 

  • fMRI was used to investigate the neural correlates of arithmetic in children with dyslexia, dyscalculia, comorbid dyslexia/dyscalculia and controls.
  • Univariate and multivariate analyses pointed towards substantial neural similarity between children with learning disorders
  • Despite behavioral differences, brain activity profiles of children with learning disorders in the context of arithmetic appear to be more similar than initially thought

 

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No Evidence for Systematic White Matter Correlates of Dyslexia and Dyscalculia

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A very interesting study has been completed. They compared people with dyslexia, dyscalculia, both and neither. They focused on the corona radiata and the arcuate fasciculus, two tracts associated with reading and mathematics in a number of previous studies. Using Bayesian hypothesis testing, they showed that the data showed no differences between groups for these particular tracts, a finding that seems to go against the current view in other studies.
This outcome, if confirmed, suggest that structural differences associated with dyslexia and dyscalculia might not be as reliable as previously thought, and this may have some impact on how we approach remediation.

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