Dyscalculia: News from the web:
Research findings suggest that cognitive and emotional mathematics problems largely dissociate and call into question the assumption that high mathematics anxiety is exclusively linked to poor mathematics performance.
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Great quote: The labelling of some students sends negative messages about potential, that are out of synch with important knowledge of neuroplasticity showing that everyone’s brains can grow and change. But few people realize that those labels are damaging for those who receive them too.
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Significant educational delays, even in the absence of cognitive-processing
deficits, can be attributed to the inability to sustain attention.
Read the very interesting research by Ronald L Lindsay* MD, Nisonger Center UAP, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH;
Terry Tomazic PhD, Department of Research Methodology,
St Louis University, St Louis, MO;
Melvin D Levine MD, Clinical Center for the Study of
Development and Learning, University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill, NC; and
Pasquale J Accardo MD, Westchester Institute for Human
Development, New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY, USA.
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Dyscalculia: News from the web: (not new but still very relevant)
Karin Landerl and her team at the University of Graz, Austria, investigated the development of numerical processing in elementary school children with dyscalculia and a control group with good arithmetic skills.
Landerl and colleagues conclude a biologically driven deficit causes children with dyscalculia to have an imprecise internal representation of numbers, which explains these children’s difficulty with the number line task.
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Very interesting article by Philip Ball who discusses the question where the numbers come from. Is it something humans have biological or are there other explanations?
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