Dyscalculia: News from the web:

We are big fans of the work of Carol Dweck on the growth mindset and now she has won a prize for it with a huge research budget attached!

It’s the first prize awarded in a competition launched last year by Chinese technology billionaire Charles Chen Yidan that is intended to “empower the change-makers in education, build a global community of education leaders and, ultimately, create long-lasting, enlightening impacts on mankind as a whole.” The award, which includes a $1.9 million cash award and an equal-size project fund, is the largest financial prize in education research.

Read all about it: HERE

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Below we embed four videos with very interesting research material presented in Hong Kong.
The format is challenging to watch but no less interesting:

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

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Dyscalculia: News from the web:

 According
to Butterworth, Varma and Laurillard
(2011), the National Institutes of Health
(NIH) had spent $107.2 million funding
dyslexia research in the United States
since 2000, but had spent only $2.3
million on dyscalculia research.

Read all about it: HERE

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Dyscalculia: News from the web:

A very interesting article by John Hawthorne in our link for today. He highlights some common things about the memory that we may not be aware of.

For our purposes a great point is that he highlights that learning something by rote is very difficult. His quote:

Simply put, the human memory isn’t particularly good at rote memorization.

Read all about it: HERE

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I’m reading the bulletin learning difficulties from Australia and they comment on the remarkable difference between research funding for dyslexia and dyscalculia:

the National Institutes of Health
(NIH) had spent $107.2 million funding
dyslexia research in the United States
since 2000, but had spent only $2.3
million on dyscalculia research. This
is despite the prevalence of the two
conditions being similar. This apparent
lack of awareness and action may have
consequences for both the individual
and the community

Read all about it: HERE

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