A dyscalculia toolkit

Dyscalculia: News from the web:

The good people from mathematicshed.com share their version of a dyscalculia toolkit with lots of interesting activities you can do to help your child with their math troubles.

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About the use of a calculator……

Dyscalculia: News from the web:

Blogpost from Claire Clay who puts it out there:

“Using a calculator is not cheating, nor is it a toy”

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How did the old Egyptians do Fractions?

Dyscalculia: News from the web:

Mathigon shares this interesting lesson with lots of visuals:

In this lesson, students explore how Ancient Egyptians wrote fractions 4000 years ago. They compare the unit fractions and express any given fraction as the sum of unit fractions. Working on the task will help students improve their skills in adding and subtracting fractions.

This activity can be used with younger students by working on the numerical examples also with the older students by finding general rules to create the unit fraction sums.

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Number puzzle

Dyscalculia: News from the web:

Not new but in fact from 2013 and free a wonderful puzzle by Dr Tang

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Keep it in balance

Dyscalculia: News from the web:

If you can not sit together with your student and have a real life balance, you can use this free gadget from the good people from Geogebra to explain how algebraic expressions need to stay in balance always.

Read all about it HERE