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The importance of math in medicine and your health

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Breast Cancer Patients Need to Know the Numbers for Treatment Decisions Risk calculations, treatment evaluations, and assessing the odds of a medication’s side effects are all part of the process of deciding which treatment is best for breast and other cancers.

But not everyone is good at math, and sometimes this process can be intimidating. For these patients, decision science research can offer well-founded advice on how to evaluate the information and make knowledgeable decisions.

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Research into a general magnitude system

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New research has been done in the theory that number, space and time might be part of a generalized magnitude system and that deficits in that system could explain Developmental Dyscalculia. It is quite a good read but their main conclusion is:

Deficits in number processing and arithmetic cannot be explained with a general magnitude deficiency. Our results further indicate that multiple neuro-cognitive components might contribute to the explanation of developmental dyscalculia.

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Dyscalculia and ADHD

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Deficits in basic numerical skills, calculation, and working memory have
been found in children with developmental dyscal-
culia (DD) as well as children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). This paper investigates cognitive profi
les of children with DD
and/or ADHD symptoms (AS) in a double dissociation design to obtain a better understanding of the comorbidity of DD and ADHD.

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What teachers know about dyscalculia

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A study about this has now been done:

Although much research on teachers’ knowledge and attitudes
towards their students with dyslexia has been accumulated, students
with dyscalculia have not gained the same attention. Teachers’
knowledge about the nature and characteristics of students with
dyscalculia seems to be limited and this has a strong impact on their
instructional decisions. In secondary education, where teachers’ pre
service educational programs are more focused on the scientific subject
instead of appropriate instructional methods, teachers’ knowledge about
dyscalculia has not yet been taken into account.

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Dyscalculia caused by bad teaching?

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Well one Dutch professor thinks so and points at a study where pupils got 6 weeks of arithmetic drilling and that put them 18 months ahead. The question is for how long that advantage stayed and if those pupils had been rightfully diagnosed with dyscalculia

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