Brain Breaks

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Very nice video from Edutopia this morning with the many benefits a brain break gives the children. Also included some tips and options on how to organize Brain Breaks for the children in your class.

Read all about it: HERE

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Training-related Brain activity change causing improvements

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Researchers have shown that children with Developmental Dyscalculia got better at solving multiplication problems and that brain activation changed after a two-week training using an interactive learning platform. Importantly, the different brain activation changes in children with Developmental Dyscalculia observed in our study once again confirms that we need to study this population as information about this disorder cannot simply be inferred from studies with typical developing children.

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Dyscalculia signs and accommodations

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Signs of dyscalculia are not always easy to spot. Keep in mind that all kids have trouble with maths from time to time. But children with dyscalculia struggle a lot more than other children the same age. Dyscalculia is not the same as math anxiety because the latter involves strong emotions around Math.

The Eblity blog gives a great overview of the signs of Dyscalculia and the accommodations possible in class

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Get your child ready for remote learning

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Something many parents struggle with is to get their children in the right frame of mind for online learning.

This is all new for the children and their attention span can be limited or the distractions around the computer screen can be too intense and the teacher or tutor on the other side of the internet will have to work hard to get them to focus on the lessons.

Although it is written for children with ADHD, the guide that the ADDitude magazine gives will help everyone to get their child ready and make life in these pandemic times a bit better for all those involved.

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Using math while recruiting

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In our link for today a great story about how math has a place in your regular life. This is why it is important to remediate dyscalculia as best you can. Here is the problem you can solve by using math, read the story in the link for the solution:

You are the HR manager of a company and need to hire the best secretary out of a given number N of candidates. You can interview them one by one, in random order. However, the decision of appointing or rejecting a particular applicant must be taken immediately after the interview. If nobody has been accepted before the end, the last candidate is chosen. What strategy do you use to maximize the chances to hire the best applicant?

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