Category Archives: Research

Oh the memories

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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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Lack of funding for Dyscalculia Research

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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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About how you learn

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There is lots involved in your brain when you learn something. Research is getting more insights every year in how exactly everything works. The article in the link is a very interesting piece that gives lots of details and shows what they are working on now.

Read all about it: HERE

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Finger Training Intervention

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Very interesting study about finger training and how interventions involving the fingers may improve skills:

This study has shown that an intervention that combines finger training with number games can improve quantitative skills among 6–7-year-old children. It supports the findings of previous research arguing for a functional relationship between finger gnosis and numeracy. We argue that this study provides evidence that fingers represent a means for children to bridge between other (verbal, symbolic, and non-symbolic) representations of number and that this contributes to children’s developing understanding. The large effect size suggests that with further refinement and replication, the combined finger training and number games intervention could be a useful tool for teachers to use to support children’s developing understanding of number.

Read all about it: HERE

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