Check the math growth mind set

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Jo Boaler has created a rubric to help your students take stock of their math mindset. Are they part of the fixed mindset crowd or did they move on to the growth mindset. A wonderful tool.

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How do you pronounce dyscalculia

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The good people from Dyscastia try to sort this out among many more details about Dyscalculia.

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More research in what causes Math Anxiety

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This new research found that spatially structuring the verbal mind is a promising cognitive correlate of the math anxiety and opens new avenues for exploring causal links between elementary cognitive processes and the math anxiety. What all of that means, you can read in the link for today below.

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Teachers can cause math anxiety which caused math achievement to go down

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In short the research tells us that higher math anxiety predicts lower math achievement and when the researchers looked at what is contributing to the math anxiety, they found that the student’s perception of the capability of the math teachers can create math anxiety. In the words of the researchers as follows:

To better understand the contextual factors underpinning maths anxiety, Lau and colleagues analysed data from 1,175,515 students who participated in three large international studies of achievement. The study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, found that students in countries with higher levels of maths anxiety tend to achieve lower maths grades.

The strongest predictor of maths anxiety was how competent students perceived their maths teacher to be: those with less confidence in their teacher tended to feel more anxious. Being set large amounts of maths homework, and parental involvement in homework, also contributed to anxiety to a lesser degree.

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How teachers can help children with dyscalculia

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A great article for teachers about how they can support children with dyscalculia. We also have three more options for teachers to become more proficient in dealing with dyscalculia.

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