Category Archives: Tools

Statistics can lie

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For someone with dyscalculia it is hard enough to make sense from numbers. Now if people are tinkering with statistics it gets even harder to see what is going on. Luckily Daniel Lakens from the Eindhoven Technical University, has a wonderful resource where you can learn about statistics for free.

Read all about it: HERE or HERE

Early Math activities

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It is important to encourage young children to be active with blocks and toys, sorting and exploring. The Fairy Math Mother blog provides a wonderful set of activities that parents can use to explore with the little ones.

Read all about it: HERE

Learning with card games

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Families play an important role in helping young children learn about numbers, counting, and other math skills. With their families’ help, children can learn to enjoy math from an early age. And the best news is that one way of learning about math at home is through playing games. Card games, for example, are a great way to have fun with children while learning math—and all you need is a deck of cards!

Read all about it: HERE

Math at home

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We hear often how important it is to show children that math is not something you only do in math class but math is everywhere around you.

The chalkbeat blog has taken this seriously and provides a wonderful page with examples for parents, including pictures from the house with clickable dots that provide examples. Great site.

Read all about it: HERE

Summle

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Not scrabble, not wordle but this time summle, a nice game to find out how to make the target number in as few steps as possible. Maybe a nice game for your child to experiment and get more experience in how numbers can be composed by a combination of various operations.

Read all about it: HERE