Dyscalculia support tools for education and work

Dyscalculia is a difference in how people process numerical information, affecting math, number sense, time and everyday tasks that carry a numerical load.

Everway’s dyscalculia support tools and accommodations remove those barriers, so students and employees can engage with numbers on their own terms and show what they are truly capable of.

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Math Bingo!

With summer coming soon, you can count on libraries and elementary schools to send home all kinds of reading incentives for the summer. One thing our library has served up in the past is reading Bingo for summer – a list of different kinds of books (and places to read them) arranged in a Bingo board. Sometimes they even partner with an ice cream shop – make a bingo, and get a free kids scoop!

 Early Family Math and math for love have put together this Math Bingo board, perfect for some fun, low-key, summer math for 3 – 8 year-olds!

Download it HERE

Dyscalculia Learning Strategies

Using all of your Senses
  • Use text-to-speech tools, or read out loud
  • Practice studying in a similar sounding environment as a test
  • Color-coding your notes, or associating pictures with certain formulas or key concepts gives you visual cues to spark your memory
  • Create your own Venn diagram or Presentation to break things down
  • Use the same Chapstick, lotion, etc. with a specific scent when studying, and taking an exam
  • Chew gum, or eat a Jolly Rancher of the same flavor when studying and taking an exam.

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Neurekalab creates the NeurekaNUM application to help children with dyscalculia with their learning

The prevalence of dyscalculia among schoolchildren ranges between 3% and 6%, with a similar distribution among girls and boys, and the most effective treatment is early detection. To help children and young people with this disorder with their learning, Neurekalab, in which the University of Vic – Central University of Catalonia (UVic-UCC) and the University of Barcelona (UB) are shareholders, has launched the NeurekaNUM application, which is aimed at professionals and families who want to help their sons and daughters with their mathematics for a specific period of time.

The NeurekaNUM application “has arisen from the need to create a tool for children with dyscalculia that enables them to do activities to improve their learning process, to try and offset a problem they have to live with”, explains Sergi Grau, dean researcher at the UVic Faculty of Science and Technology, and co-founder of Neurekalab with Josep Maria Serra-Grabulosa, a researcher in the Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychobiology at the UB. “Learning difficulties are closely related to academic failure, low self-esteem and lower levels of employability,” adds Josep M. Serra. One of the researchers’ aims for this tool is “for it not to remain simply a pilot test in a research project, but to scale up its impact through a company with social goals, like Neurekalab.”

See the app HERE