Math Anxiety looms

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An adult telling the story on how difficult Math is and who even writing down a phone number can be an obstacle.

Best quote:

For as long as I can remember, teachers, friends, and family members have always pointed out that for a fairly intelligent person, my mathematical sense is completely out of whack.

Now, I can tell them they were right – being dyscalculaic doesn’t make you any less intelligent – it just means that your mind might work in a different way to other people. And that’s ok.

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Primary and Secondary Developmental Dyscalculia

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Great article with indepth information about dyscalculia

Do read the whole article but here is the punch line:

Mathematical performance deficits, Developmental Dyscalculia, may arise because of a wide range of factors, from poor teaching, to low socio-economic status, to behavioral attention problems. However, a subset of children with math difficulties, possibly with the most-severe impairments, appears to suffer from a developmental learning disorder that undermines the ability to process basic numerical magnitude information, and that impairment in turn undermines the acquisition of school-level arithmetic skills. This disorder, “primary developmental dyscalculia,” should not be confused with “secondary developmental dyscalculia,” which refers to mathematical deficits stemming from external factors such as those described above. Instead, primary DD is associated with impaired development of brain mechanisms for processing numerical magnitude information and is thus driven by endogenous neurodevelopmental factors.

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Make content accessible

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From Australia comes a guide with free advice on how to make content available on the web in such a way that people with cognitive disabilities, including dyscalculia, will have no problem accessing it.

You need to register with the provider and confirm your email address but then you get the very useful guide that will allow you to follow the items one by one and make sure your site complies to help your content being accessible to those who may need it most.

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False diagnoses of Dyscalculia

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Some parents are concerned about their children getting good grades and are envious of the children with learning disabilities who qualify for additional time on tests. They even, as you can read in the link for today, resort to getting bogus diagnoses from shady bureaus just to fool the schools into given accommodations where none are necessary.

The damage is obvious;

  • it shows that these parents do not care about the children who really need the accommodations
  • it undermines the authority of respectable bureaus
  • they hurt the children with a real learning disability by confusing the schools and testing organizations.

When you suspect something like this is going on, let us know, we will highlight it and expose it.

Meanwhile only work with bureaus that have proven their honest passion to help children with Dyscalculia.

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Great resource for Math

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If you have not been to Math open reference you should really do that soon. What a wonderful resource to teach very hands-on and visible for students how to work with squares, angles, lines etc.

Their mission: A free interactive math textbook on the web. Initially covering high-school geometry.

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