Dyscalculia: News from the web:
The Dyslexia Octopus shares a good story about why timed tests are no good for children with dyslexia and I would venture to say that the same would be true for children with dyscalculia.
Read all about it: HERE
Learning disabilities under one umbrella
Dyscalculia: News from the web:
Found on twitter a wonderful simple picture that explains a lot.
Loving math
Dyscalculia: News from the web:
BOLD, the blog for learning and development, has published interesting findings about what keeps children from not liking math and what to do about it. Read all about it in our link for today.
Read all about it: HERE
Clever trick for the times table of 3
Dyscalculia: News from the web:
The maths factor provides some free sample lessons and in our link for today we share the clever trick they use to learn the times table of 3. Children with Dyscalculia are better served with conceptual understanding and working with manipulatives to learn times tables but this trick is just too clever not to share it.
Read all about it: HERE
Manipulatives when working from home
Dyscalculia: News from the web:
In these days of working from home it is still important to work with manipulatives to explain math concepts to the student. Certainly the ones who have dyscalculia.
One wonderful source for that is the polypad from Mathigon. A rich source of various colorful manipulatives. It seems the best alternative for sitting next to the student with real manipulatives.
Read all about it: HERE