Dyscalculia: News from the web:
Entertaining and yet very useful for their insights in patterns and sequences. See the game in our link for today.
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Go ahead, use your fingers to do math
Dyscalculia: News from the web:
A few weeks ago I (Jo Boaler) was working in my Stanford office when the silence of the room was interrupted by a phone call. A mother called me to report that her 5-year-old daughter had come home from school crying because her teacher had not allowed her to count on her fingers. This is not an isolated event—schools across the country regularly ban finger use in classrooms or communicate to students that they are babyish. This is despite a compelling and rather surprising branch of neuroscience that shows the importance of an area of our brain that “sees” fingers, well beyond the time and age that people use their fingers to count.
https://www.theatlantic.com/
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Dyscalculia can hurt your career and salary opportunities
Dyscalculia: News from the web:
Not one, not two, or three studies show a direct relationship between the ability to understand and master mathematical concepts and future employment and socioeconomic success. This concept is not entirely new. Education by area has always been related to the socioeconomic factor of families. However, for the psychology professors Stuart J. Ritchie and Timothy C. Bates of the University of Edinburgh, they are mathematics the ones that take the lead in this relationship.
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Capturing Developmental Dyscalculia
Dyscalculia: News from the web:
See a recording of the Plenary session kindly contributed by Regina Fabry in SEMF’s 2021 Numerous Numerosity
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Treatment of Dyscalculia
Dyscalculia: News from the web:
The psychologysays blog provides an overview of dyscalculia and has a slightly different take on the treatment:
In the medium term it is known to be associated with psychological problems such as low self-esteem or the onset of symptoms of depression. However, dyscalculia can be treated from psychological and psychoeducational work. For this, it is necessary to carry out a process of cognitive restructuring linked to the use of basic mathematics and self-concept. In this way, the fundamentals of mathematics are taught without which one cannot progress, and at the same time ideas that hinder learning, such as the belief that numbers do not exist, are rejected.
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