Math Anxiety: Fight or Flight mode

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Beacon house shares this picture that illustrates what happens when your body gets into the fight or flight mode. This is one of the responses people have to math anxiety and from the picture it will be clear that this is distracting and will prevent you from doing any math activities until the feeling subsides.

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Mental Math

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The good people from the thirdspacelearning.com blog share some nice mental math games. We like the one where they ask the children to brainstorm relations with a specific number when working on the timestables. It is great to build those connections.

Read all about it: HERE

Working memory and Numeracy training for children

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New research has been performed to see if computerized training of working memory and numeracy would increase the math achievement for children.

The short of the results shows that combining the numeracy training and the working memory trainining probably is worth pursuing.

Read all about it: HERE

Why did math change? or did it?

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The importance of Place Value

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Place value is so important in our system of math but can be so confusing. The good people of Thirdspacelearning.com have published a nice series of games to help children get on top of this tricky place value concept.

Read all about it: HERE