Do preschoolers understand zero?

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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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Raising a child with dyscalculia

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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.

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College with Dyscalculia

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See and listen to the story from Mario Ornelas who found out he had dyscalculia, dyslexia and weak working memory, he then decided to give college another shot. He went to Landmark College, a school that focuses on helping students with dyslexia and other learning differences. Thanks to the understood organization for sharing this story

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Dyscalculia equally divided

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Interesting finding in this new research. The learning challenges that were once thought to be 3 to 1 ratio males to females, now seem to be more than 1 to 1.

Read all about it: HERE