Category Archives: Tools

10 tips for parents supporting their child with dyscalculia

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1. Understand Dyscalculia

Learn about dyscalculia, its signs, and how it affects learning. This builds empathy and helps you offer tailored support. Read about the signs of dyscalculia for more insight.

2. Use Visual Aids

Incorporate visual tools like number lines, charts, or coloured blocks. These help children better visualise and understand numbers.

3. Break Down Tasks

Simplify math problems into smaller, manageable steps. This reduces overwhelm and builds confidence.

see all tips HERE

Fixing Dyscalculia with an Arduino

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Dyscalculia, a significant obstacle in the mastery of mathematics that affects the understanding and application of numerical concepts, is the focus of this project. Using Arduino, an interactive calculator designed to address this challenge in mathematical learning is explicitly developed. The project seeks to provide an educational tool for children with dyscalculia, allowing them to enter numbers and operations and receive feedback through an LED display. Inspired by the importance of creativity in education, the project seeks to cultivate imagination in the mathematical learning process, citing Einstein and Ken Robinson as referents of this philosophy. The project aims to address dyscalculia from a perspective that recognizes the importance of action and diversity of skills in mathematical learning. 

Read all about it HERE

The GeoClock

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Dyscalculia: News from the web:

The national institute for learning development has this wonderful post featuring the GEOCLOCK, a very nice tool to teach time with some touch manipulation.

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Slow reveal graphs

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Dyscalculia: News from the web:

it’s an instructional routine designed to promote students’ sensemaking about data. You show the class a sequence of PowerPoint slides (each slide reveals a bit more about the graph) and you ask questions that engage students in discussing what they see and what it means.

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Toolkit to detect dyscalculia

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Dyscalculia: News from the web:

From University College of London comes this wonderful toolkit for teachers and parents to raise awareness of dyscalculia.

Read all about it HERE