When numbers are a foreign language

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Good story about Adult Dyscalculia in ELM magazine’s theme number:

Dyscalculia is a specific but not yet extensively researched difficulty in understanding numbers. Having faced difficulties with maths for most of their lives, dyscalculic adult learners might have lost motivation in the subject, making it hard to find the right support.

Read all about it: HERE

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Dyscalculia in Nepal

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The research in the attached document coming from Nepal shows that the lack of knowledge about Dyscalculia among teachers is wide spread. One reason more to emphasizse the need for Dyscalculia Awareness. We have a training online which does not take too much time but gives a great introduction. Find it HERE

Read all about the research in Nepal: HERE

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The role of science and technology in improving outcomes for the case of dyscalculia

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New official report out from the UK. They make the point that dyslexia research in the US got 46 times the amount of money that dyscalculia got to do research. This needs to change.

Some of their conclusiions:

  • Promote the use of reliable screening tools that focus on the efficiency of
    numerosity processing tasks in order to ensure the validity of interventions for
    dyscalculia.
  • Increase funding for DD research to match that for dyslexia, which has a similar
    prevalence and impact on education and employment.
  • Encourage cross-professional collaborative research between teachers, specialists
    in schools, and parents to establish what types of intervention work for DD.
  • Train teachers, other education professionals, and parents in what DD is and what it
    is not, and how to support it, especially using concrete manipulables, a focus on
    foundational concepts, and the procedural skills using formal representations of
    arithmetic.

Read all about it: HERE

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Dyscalculia in the classroom

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Good story about children with dyscalculia in the classroom and how they need extra attention but also a good piece about the role of the parents and what to do at home to reinforce the learning.

When it comes to dyscalculia in mainstream education, it is about children who have difficulty with arithmetic. There are several ways in which these problems can manifest themselves. It may be that these children come across as very smart and that only when they are graded it is noticeable that the students do not understand the material or it may be that students show it immediately because they do not understand the explanation of the math.

Read all about it: HERE

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