Build math into your child’s day

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We have talked about this before but it is so important to slowly introduce your child to math. Best done at home in their own environment. Our link for today provides five ideas to get started.

Read all about it: HERE

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Differentiation and how to accomplish it

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Great article about what differentiation in the classroom is and how to get it done. Our children with dyscalculia are most helped with pull out into one on one sessions however if that proves to be impossible it is great to get the benefit from differentiation.

Read all about it: HERE

Little Learners

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From the UK comes this free online magazine for little learners. Wonderful stories on how to engage you little ones.

Read all about it: HERE

If children are not behaving, they are not learning

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if we are serious about supporting all students, not just fortunate ones, we have to teach behaviour, not just tell it or only react to it. And provide safe environments where everyone is protected from abuse or harassment by loving boundaries, patrolled by humane and robust consequences. Not “zero tolerance”, which is a misunderstanding of how high standards work. All rules have exceptions, otherwise they’re cruel. What we need is very, very low tolerance of misbehaviour, and only make allowances when circumstances demand them. Sanctions are one, important part of this process, but so are many other things. You don’t stop speeding by relying on speed cameras alone – you teach people how to drive too. It’s a magazine of approaches.

Read all about it: HERE

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

Read all about it: HERE