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Great program for kids with dyscacalculia

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Matific is a great program that will have your kids love math. It is available on pc, iphone/ipad and android and is designed by mathematicians, developers and a gamer. It stays away from rote skill and drills.

Matific

The program is suitable for both home and school use. Teachers will be able to follow their students progress.

As a bonus it is available in a range of languages.

Go check it out, one of the better ones I have come across!

 

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Stop using Flash Cards, certainly for kids with dyscalculia

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Stanford University’s Jo Boaler says teachers and parents should stop using math flash cards, stop drilling kids in addition and multiplication and especially stop forcing students to do calculations quickly under time pressure.

Good-bye Mad Minute Mondays, where teachers hand out quiz sheets with 50 problems to be completed in less than a minute. But wait – doesn’t everyone have to learn times tables? No, says Boaler.

Although her position is unorthodox, Boaler, an education professor and researcher, has spent a career trying to prove why it is the best way for kids to learn.

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Better teaching math helps dyscalculia

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A research team at the Curry School’s Center for Advanced Study of Teaching and Learning has been developing and testing a professional development program for pre-kindergarten teachers focused primarily on math and science.

Researchers found that when teachers were provided with the “MyTeachingPartner-Math/Science” curricula and teacher support system (including three- to five-minute online video demonstrations of high-quality implementation of every learning activity, delivered by actual pre-kindergarten teachers in real classrooms), their students outperformed their peers in classrooms where the district’s existing curricular activities were employed in assessments of geometry and measurement and number sense and place value.

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Silicon Valley Mathematics Initiative helps dyscalculia

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Fear of math represents not personal failure or a missing gene but wrongheaded “one-size-fits-all” ways of teaching. That, at least, is the theory behind a quiet revolution in math education incubated in the Bay Area that is exciting teachers even more than an elegant proof of the Pythagorean theorem.

A vanguard of math instructors is embracing ideas developed by two Stanford professors to reform math instruction. more HERE

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