Great program for kids with dyscacalculia

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Matific is a great program that will have your kids love math. It is available on pc, iphone/ipad and android and is designed by mathematicians, developers and a gamer. It stays away from rote skill and drills.

The program is suitable for both home and school use. Teachers will be able to follow their students progress.

As a bonus it is available in a range of languages.

Go check it out, one of the better ones I have come across!

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A challenge for Toronto students on Alzheimer

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No math abilities? No spending problem

Challenge: Over 360,000 people in the GTA are affected by dyscalculia – the inability to understand numbers and do simple mathematical calculations. To some of these people, counting change in a store can be a nightmare. Engineering students coded new apps that help those challenged when they’re at the checkout.

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Stop using Flash Cards, certainly for kids with dyscalculia

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Stanford University’s Jo Boaler says teachers and parents should stop using math flash cards, stop drilling kids in addition and multiplication and especially stop forcing students to do calculations quickly under time pressure.

Good-bye Mad Minute Mondays, where teachers hand out quiz sheets with 50 problems to be completed in less than a minute. But wait – doesn’t everyone have to learn times tables? No, says Boaler.

Although her position is unorthodox, Boaler, an education professor and researcher, has spent a career trying to prove why it is the best way for kids to learn.

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