Dyscalculia: News from the web:
Great story by Donna Boucher about how subitizing develops in our young children
Read all about it: HERE
Subitizing
Some color to the operations helps
Dyscalculia: News from the web:
Interesting research that shows that if you put some color or highlight to the operations in a mathematical challenge, the students improve their solving capabilities. This is a too short summary of this interesting article so please see the full story in our link for today.
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Do preschoolers understand zero?
Dyscalculia: News from the web:
Highlights
– Preschoolers can handle zero as soon as they can handle positive integers.
– Preschoolers are unsure whether zero is a number.
– Children may start to understand numbers as the properties of items in a set.
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This is why kids seem to hate math
Dyscalculia: News from the web:
A very true word from twitter user @jaimacklin
Raising a child with dyscalculia
Dyscalculia: News from the web:
Taking care of a child with learning differences can teach you a lot. That’s what Hedy Treviño found out after her daughter died. Hedy became the caretaker for her granddaughter, Savannah Treviño-Casias , who has dyscalculia. Find out what raising Savannah taught Hedy in this video from the National Center for Learning Disabilities.
Read all about it: HERE