Category Archives: Treatment

UK parliament getting serious about Dyscalculia

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The House of Lords will discuss Dyscalculia on June 4th.

Dyscalculia is a specific learning difficulty that affects the understanding of number-based information. Schools in England are responsible for identifying any special educational needs (SEN) arising from such learning difficulties, and initial teacher training from September 2025 will contain more content related to supporting children with SEN. However, campaigners highlight there remains no specific requirement for teachers to learn about dyscalculia and argue awareness of the learning difficulty remains low.

Read what they will discuss HERE

Boosting Engagement by Taking Math Outdoors

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Boosting Engagement by Taking Math Outdoors. Looking for a way to motivate elementary math students? Take it outside: Moving math instruction outdoors can recharge both teachers and students with strategies for capitalizing on using outdoor spaces to design engaging math instruction.

Read all about it HERE

Avoid  the TRAP of Algorithms!

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It is not our usual habit to run commercials or advertisements, but this is exactly what we have been talking about with our students and the teachers we train. Great book:

Developing Mathematical Reasoning: Avoiding the Trap of Algorithms illuminates a hierarchy of mathematical reasoning to help teachers guide students through various domains of math development, from basic counting and adding to more complex proportional and functional reasoning.

Get the book HERE

All students are general education students

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Jennifer Kurth chairs the Department of Special Education at The University of Kansas, or KU, which recently debuted a unified degree geared toward future teachers who want to serve in either general or special education classrooms. It requires eight more special education courses than the school’s traditional teaching degree.

There’s just one catch: For students with disabilities to benefit from dual degree programs like this, people have to choose to enroll in them, over traditional education programs.

Kurth says it’s going to require a paradigm shift to a philosophy that “all students are general education students.”

Read more about how teacher training is evolving HERE

And if you want to specialize in teaching children with dyscalculia, do the DyscalculiaTutorTraining.

When you are a dyslexia tutor and want to also help children with problems in basic math, do this transitiontraining

Download and use Pirate math

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Rigorous evaluations of all four iterations of Pirate Math Equation Quest indicated that third- and fourth-grade students experiencing mathematics difficulty demonstrated improved word-problem performance with Pirate Math Equation Quest compared to students who did not participate in the intervention

See all their wonderful tools HERE