How far does the counting of animals go?

Dyscalculia: News from the web:

 Honeybees count landmarks when navigating toward sources of nectar. Lionesses tally the number of roars they hear from an intruding pride before deciding whether to attack or retreat. Some ants keep track of their steps; some spiders keep track of how many prey are caught in their web. One species of frog bases its entire mating ritual on number: If a male calls out — a whining pew followed by a brief pulsing note called a chuck — his rival responds by placing two chucks at the end of his own call. The first frog then responds with three, the other with four, and so on up to around six, when they run out of breath.

Read all about it: HERE

One of our favorite tools

Dyscalculia: News from the web:

Certainly in this day and age of virtual classes it is difficult to give the children with dyscalculia a sense of how to work with manipulatives. Well the polypad from mathigon is a great tool and one of our favorites. See someone in the link for today demonstrate it.

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The language of Math

Dyscalculia: News from the web:

An article written by Erin Null, from Corwin mathematics, and she talks about the language of Math and how some words or phrases can be confusing and what alternatives to use instead.

Read all about it: HERE

Growing up with undetected Dyscalculia

Dyscalculia: News from the web:

A great story about how the lack of detection of dyscalculia has played a major role in the life of the writer of this article.

It underlines that we need to ensure that all who think they may have a learning disability take action and get a good diagnosis

Read all about it: HERE