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Puzzles for Kids

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We bring you a link to a site with links to puzzles for kids. Most, if not all, are free to download or to play with. It includes a link to the great program Number Sense, the best program yet to mediate Dyscalculia. This program is still in development and keeps being improved from time to time. Go dowload it and try it, all for free. Just be careful not to click any links to other software that you would need to pay for.

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TouchMath

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TouchMath is a multisensory program that uses its signature TouchPoints to engage students of all abilities and learning styles.

Our award-winning, step-by-step approach covers: Counting • Addition • Subtraction • Place Value • Multiplication • Division • Time • Money • Fractions • Story Problems • Shapes • Sizes • Pre-algebra

TouchMath has been proven to raise math test scores in classrooms around the world for over three decades. Use this intuitive system as a supplement to any curriculum or as a stand-alone program. It’s easy to teach and easy to learn!

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Which mathematical concepts would be more widely understood if better explained ?

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I have dyscalculia. I can count with 1:1 correlation and I do understand some numbers are larger as I count up, and smaller as I count down. I just don’t understand their relationships. And I cannot remember numbers because there is no emotional association. I also have synesthesia and my memory is connected to emotions. That is, if I have no feelings about an event I saw or heard  I don’t remember it. Math is too cold for me to focus upon. I wish it could have been taught in a way that made it matter. I surround myself with people who can do math and from an early age my children did all my math for me. Now I just ignore it entirely.

The concepts which would be better understood by the general public if better explained are the relationships between numbers — how they relate to one another. For example, I see people who can look at a profit and loss statement and immediately understand how a business can be improved. I wish I had that ability, and I wish that kind of understanding were taught or could be taught more effectively and more explicitly.

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The Dyscalculia Assessment

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In this important new book, Jane Emerson and Patricia Babtie lay out in a clear and systematic way how teachers can identify dyscalculic learners, and how they can help them achieve proficiency inbasic arithmetic. Jane and Patricia are both very experienced special needs teachers whose recom-mendations are built on many years of teaching dyscalculic learners. Both of the authors, like me,have learnt a great deal about how best to do this from Dorian Yeo, perhaps the deepest thinker inthe field of dyscalculia intervention

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