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The Impact of an Augmented Reality Tool on Students with Dyscalculia in Learning Multiplication Concepts

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Augmented reality has emerged as an assistive technology recently, contributing to various fields, especially education. In particular, it offers potential benefits for students with learning difficulties. Students with dyscalculia, for example, face significant difficulties that hinder their academic performance. To address these difficulties, we designed and developed an educational tool based on augmented reality and evaluated its effectiveness on student performance and satisfaction. 

Read the study HERE

Ipad apps for dyscalculia

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How the use of manipulatives can help dyscalculia

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See in the link below how cleverly AI answered the question about how manipulatives can help dyscalculia.

See the question and the answer HERE

Guidelines for parents, thoughts for activities and tasks

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  • play math games and riddles
  • be encouraging, don’t ever tell kids their math is wrong but find the good thinking in their answers (for what is 3×4? an answer of 7 makes sense because 3+4 = 7, then say lets look at 3 groups of 4
  • don’t go for speed but for connection: many activities are mentioned 
  • never speak bad about math of tell kids that you were bad at math or dislike it
  • encourage flexible use of numbers: for 29 + 56 take one from the 56 and put it with the 29 now you have 30 + 55, a lot easier!
  • encourage a growth mindset, let kids know they have unlimited math potential and that they can make progress by working hard, keep trying and not giving up

See all the activities and tasks HERE

Resources for Parents

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Jo Boaler has great resources for parents. Go take a look.

And you can also look at Dr Schreuders rich demonstration site at https://practicalmathhelp.com

See the resources from Jo Boaler HERE