Dyscalculia: News from the web:
A nice article from the UK provides some ideas to improve motivation and engagement in a classroom setting. Although not specific related to dyscalculia, still a very good read.
Read all about it: HERE
Causes of Dyscalculia
Dyscalculia: News from the web:
Two hypotheses attempt to explain the main cause of dyscalculia. The first hypothesis suggests that a problem with the core mechanisms of perceiving (non-symbolic) quantities is the cause of dyscalculia (core deficit hypothesis), while the alternative hypothesis suggests that dyscalculics have problems only with the processing of numerical symbols (access deficit hypothesis).
Read all about it: HERE
Subitizing
Dyscalculia: News from the web:
Great story by Donna Boucher about how subitizing develops in our young children
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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.
Read all about it: HERE
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.
Read all about it: HERE