Category Archives: Research

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.

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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.

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What is a Feifer assessment?

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Where is dyscalculia in the brain?

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The outcomes of this study revealed that developmental dyscalculia is associated with impairment in areas involved in number magnitude processing and, to a lesser extent, in areas dedicated to domain-general magnitude processing.

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This works for all learners

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Effective learning and teaching addresses the needs of all learners whether they
have specific numeracy difficulties or not. Support for all learners begins within the
classroom and is provided by the classroom teachers who hold the main
responsibility for nurturing, educating and meeting the needs of all learners in their
class, working in partnership with support staff, to plan, deliver and review curriculum
programmes. As a result, although there is a focus on resources that are intended
particularly for the use of learners with a specific numeracy difficulty and maths
learning difficulties

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