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Supporting Pupils with Dyscalculia and Math Difficulties

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Dyscalculia: News from the web:

Twinkl has a great bolog post on a recent teaching assistant CPD webinar all about dyscalculia and how TAs can support pupils with math difficulties, sharing strategies and resources that TAs can use with pupils to support their mathematical understanding and number sense.

Read all about it: HERE

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How to drill

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Although for the children with dyscalculia drilling can only be beneficial when they have a good understanding of the underlying concepts, here are a few strategies for drilling from the Teacherhead blog

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Five ways for a lot

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In case you missed it; the teacherhead blog has developed a series of one-pagers with on every page five ways to do something. For example, Check for understanding or build confidence. You can download it at their website, in our link for today.

Read all about it: HERE

Teaching fractions

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Creating fraction kits is a great way to get your kids exploring equivalent fractions and acquiring a deep, conceptual understanding of the topic.

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Responsive teaching, this is how to do it

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 There is no simple formula to teaching well – but there are lots of strong principles that underpin the decision-making processes teachers undertake in any given lesson. Responsive teaching is all about thinking on your feet, using evidence from real-time formative assessment, adjusting instructional inputs and practice activities in response to students’ levels of success and confidence. It can appear and feel very organic but if you deconstruct the range of things a teacher has to do in a successful learning sequence – it’s quite an impressive array of specific definable elements.  See how they suggest phasing it in our link for today.

Read all about it: HERE