Overview of Acquired Dyscalculia research

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Michael McCloskey from Johns Hopkins University writes an article about the research into acquired dyscalculia. This is the form of Dyscalculia that you do not have from birth but that you acquire later in life through a trauma involving your brain. This could be a fall or an accident. It is not widely know this form of Dyscalculia so it is great to see this overview.

Read all about it: HERE

Grades are like apples

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Great concept here: Grades are like apples, they are nice but they don’t last. When you take care of the apple tree, you’ll have apples for life.

Research recommendations from Nigeria

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Recommendations from recent research in Nigeria are listed below. Please read the full report in our link for today:

Based on the discussions of the findings, the following recommendation were made:

Dyscalculia test should be adopted by parents, school administrators and counselors to
assess students who may be having difficulty in mathematics or arithmetic for proper
diagnosis

Assessment instruments used within the school system be it at primary, secondary or higher
institutions should be subjected to the DIF analysis for bias item analysis as this would
provide the necessary statistical evidence that a particular assessment instrument is not
bias.

Read all about it: HERE

Dyscalculia | memory problems and lack of counting automation

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A, small, new research showed various causes of the problems with arithmetic:

Our results show that differences in performance between the two groups of children were significant for addition but not for multiplication. Moreover, concerning additions, children with dyscalculia presented more difficulties for non-tie (e.g., 3 + 4) than tie problems (e.g., 3 + 3). Altogether, our results support the fact that, in our sample, the difficulties encountered by children with dyscalculia in arithmetic were due to working memory limitations or, alternatively, to a deficit in the automatization of counting procedures.

An investigation of the possible causes of arithmetic difficulties in children with dyscalculia
Jeanne Bagnoud, Romain Mathieu, Jasinta Dewi, Sandrine Masson, Sibylle Gonzalez-Monge, Zumrut Kasikci, Catherine Thevenot
Dans L’Année psychologique 2021/3 (Vol. 121), pages 217 à 237

Read all about it: HERE