Patterns are a powerful tool

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Visual patterns are a powerful tool to engage students in deep mathematical thought and exploration. The tools on Polypad can help make students’ thinking visible to classmates and teachers.

Read all about it: HERE

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Patterns help when you have dyscalculia

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A good trick for my dyscalculia is to look for the patterns in the numbers instead of focusing on the numbers themselves. Repetition & ratios are easier to visualise as cartoony pictures in my head, so the actual numbers become less important. #Dyscalculia
— Polititrix 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 (@sometimes_susan) April 22, 2021

Helping your child with dyscalculia

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The child mind institute has a nice page with tips on how to help your child with dyscalculia.

Read all about it: HERE

You can also use Dr Schreuder’s video series: MomsTeachMath

Language matters

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Solving a mathematical problem starts with the understanding of what is asked for first. Impact Wales provides this nice list of explanations, very useful.

Read all about it: HERE

Can abacus help dyscalculia?

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Students with an abacus course demonstrated better performance in arithmetic computation and spatial short-term memory after controlling for age, gender, grade, and other basic cognitive abilities. The results suggest that the abacus course could be an effective tool for DD intervention in natural education settings.

Read all about it: HERE

Easter math

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Thank you

for this wonderful example of Easter math.

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Doing doubles

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Thank you to the Dyscalculia network for this great demo video

New tool for dyscalculia?

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Via Twitter they make a passing reference to help for dyscalculia:

Often described as “dyslexia for numbers” #dyscalculia is a learning difference associated with numeracy, affecting the ability to acquire mathematical skills. Time spent with ROMBi helps build foundations for perceptual organisation, reducing issues associated with dyscalculia.

So check out the Rombi and let us know how you feel about it and if it works for you.

Read all about it: HERE

Math Moms and Dads

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On facebook they now have a math Moms and math Dads support group. Go find it here

Dr Schreuder also has a video series to help parents, helping their child with math homework, see that HERE

Spin the wheel for numeracy

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Nice new tool you can use to train numeracy. Look around on this site as it has great other tools to use also.

Read all about it: HERE

Strategies to help people with dyscalculia

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Great strategies presented here by Kathleen McGarvey. Check their youtube channel for some more.

Read all about it: HERE

Accelerate Learning for Students with Disabilities During COVID-19 and Beyond

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The National Center for Learning Disabilities has written a report on how we can use some opportunities to accelerate learning for students with disabilities during the pandemic and even beyond.

The report is easy to read and has real policy proposals and implementation recommendations.

Read all about it: HERE

Clever trick for the times table of 3

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The maths factor provides some free sample lessons and in our link for today we share the clever trick they use to learn the times table of 3. Children with Dyscalculia are better served with conceptual understanding and working with manipulatives to learn times tables but this trick is just too clever not to share it.

Read all about it: HERE

Manipulatives when working from home

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In these days of working from home it is still important to work with manipulatives to explain math concepts to the student. Certainly the ones who have dyscalculia.

One wonderful source for that is the polypad from Mathigon. A rich source of various colorful manipulatives. It seems the best alternative for sitting next to the student with real manipulatives.

Read all about it: HERE

Dyscalculics need it in their hands before it enters their head

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Read the wonderful example in this post from Tony Attwood about how to explain fractions to someone with dyscalculia by doing a little physical exercise. Something they can touch and see. It works better for them this way and brings the true understanding they need in order to be able to relate to the concept later.

Read all about it: HERE

TikTok math

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Just as you thought TikTok was only good for silly dances and dangerous escapedes by kids, here comes a little math lesson.

New TikTok video: Integer subtraction without relying on "two negatives make a positive" pic.twitter.com/5PVBomttbv
— Howie Hua (@howie_hua) February 10, 2021

Colored paper useful for learning disabilities?

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Rhino and Pukka Pad make coloured lined paper! Great for #dyscalculia and #dyslexia, but also for #ADHD and other memory/cognitive/executive functioning disabilities!

Have you tried it? Does it help you or your student?

Read all about it: HERE

2e students better served

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From Australia comes the news that they have now implemented a new mandate on how to identify and work with students who are both gifted and have a learning disability, the so-called 2e students.

The traditional way of identifying gifted students was to look at their achievement, but this overlooked students with hidden potential.

Dr Townend said twice-exceptional students need both learning support and enrichment or extension to reach their potential, and supporting the disability in the classroom was essential to level the playing field.

“It’s like giving a wheelchair to a child who cannot walk or glasses to a child who needs glasses,” she said.

Read all about it: HERE

What’s left or right

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People with learning disabilities have often dificultiy to know what is left or right. In our link for today you’ll find a solution by someone, that may be a bit intense for you, but is sure to solve the problem once and for always.

Read all about it: HERE

New tool developed by grandfather

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Grandfather Tony Campbell, has taken his 20-year-old maths toolkit, which has helped special needs education professionals nationwide, and adapted it for home-schooling.

The new ‘Maths Home Schooling Kit’, which can be ordered online, contains flexible tables allowing primary school children up to Year 7 to grasp the basics of addition, subtraction, multiplication and fractions.

Read all about it: HERE

A wonderful resource

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The White Rose Maths (yes from the UK hence mathS) provides us with a great set of home learning videos for primary school. Wonderfully done and although not specific for Dyscalculia, certainly very helpful for your work and as a reteach of what they have done in school.

Read all about it: HERE

Math manipulatives for first graders

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The numberdyslexia blog shares with us today a great article about “gamified manipulatives” for first graders. As we always say “games are the new worksheets” this is a great resource and they even put buttons on where to buy them.

Read all about it: HERE

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Piano with dyscalculia

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On facebook we read the solution Laurie Graham found when dealing with this

“For piano, I have been using “simply piano” app, (with a midi cord on an electric keyboard- makes a big difference).Unlike traditional sheet music which needs to be scanned with your eyes right to left , this app presents it rolling along in front of me, highlighting the notes I’m playing correctly in green, and I can play basic popular songs in a way that has eluded me after years of lessons.”

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A new number system for dyscalculia?

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Here is someone who has trouble reading price tags on products and the solution they propose is to develop a new number system for people with dyscalculia. A system that would make more sense and would be easier to decipher.

How about that? Do you believe there is merit to it. See the proposal in our link for today.

Read all about it: HERE

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Dyscalculia | We are in this together

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Parents, Teachers and Tutors together with the students are the four legs that math support rests on.

Certainly students with dyscalculia need the extra support from Tutors and Parents and in uor link for today some ideas on what Parents can do together with the teacher to keep the math learning on track

Read all about it: HERE

To support these efforts we have organized a major reduction on the price of our “Moms Teach Math” video series, that is meant for parents trying to help their children at home with the math homework. Take advantage of this offer, click the picture.

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Manipulatives

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See the wonderful manipulatives display @mrshawthorne7 has made with help from @StudyMaths and @giftedHKO . There is much to like about this display and it is a great tool to explain what to use when.

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Cuisenaire rod lessons

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The Math for love website shares free lessons on how to work with Cuisenaire rods. We love our Cuisenaire rods and use them every day. Go check out these wonderful lessons.