Dr. Schreuder is available to support your Teacher’s Professional Development days.

Please review the available modules below or contact us with your specific needs and we can develop a customized module to fit your program. For more information click here

Dyscalculia Awareness Training

• Introduction in Dyscalculia
• Background, History and current Research
• Dyscalculia in the classroom
• Screening, Testing & accommodations

Math Anxiety

• What is Math Anxiety
• Causes and Consequences
• Accommodations & Solutions
• Overcoming Test Anxiety

Math Manipulatives

We review the most popular and most effective manipulatives for various topics and age groups and learn how to use them for maximum results. You can specify what tools to focus on for your group if you have a particular need. 

Math and Dyscalculia Interventions

This is an introduction to our one- or two-day workshops. We review Screening, Testing and Re-mediation. Games, Golden Rules, Curricula and approaches. A very hands-on module! Choose from targeted levels: KG-2, 3-5, and 6-8.

Smart number lines

Students develop mathematical thinking through experiences that match their stage of understanding. Various representations can illustrate new concepts that can be consolidated into one representation: a smart number line. This enhances understanding and reduces the need for memorization and develops proportional thinking. It can be used for unit conversion and helps to make the step to linear graphs in an XY plane. A great presentation for middle school teachers.

From time to time, we organize workshops. They are very hands on and aims, after a brief introduction of Dyscalculia, to answer your specific questions. You will receive a survey before the actual workshop to ensure we will be prepared to answer your questions and work on your problems.

Dyscalculia in the classroom, homework help, tutoring approaches, effective working with manipulatives we cover it all. See more details at https://workshop.dyscalculiaservices.com

Course Leader: Dr. A.M. Schreuder 

The topics covered are:

• What is Dyscalculia and current research
• How to detect Dyscalculia
• Dyscalculia in the classroom, math anxiety
• Dyscalculia accommodation and interventions
• Available programs and resources
• Effective use of manipulatives
• Golden rules 
• Q & A

Links to stories about dyscalculia get posted on our site dyscalculiaheadlines.com and once a week I sit down with the editor and we discuss the links that were published that week and create a podcast out of it to help people listen to the news about dyscalculia in an easy manner while they are maybe traveling.

Find the podcast in your favorite podcast app or listen to them HERE

As much of my work is dedicated to bringing awareness I also browse the web for new approaches, interesting articles, new research and all other things related to dyscalculia. Referrals to those get posted on our site dyscalculiaheadlines.com

This website also has an easy search function and some topics on the sidebar to help people focus on the most interesting articles for them.

In my work with children who have trouble with math I have used various methods and strategies to develop and enhance the mathematical thinking and, among many other useful manipulatives, one of the better ways to help them is by the consistent use of number lines. Moving slowly with them from the number path to the number lines, then to double number lines and eventually even to circular number lines and number lines on a grid to form graphs. View my Masterclass Smart Number Lines

There is a large number of mathematical concepts that can be modeled in various ways. We bombard them with  stacks of counters, Cuisenaire rods, base ten blocks, and pizza slices. This may lead to students believing that they are learning many separate topics that each come with their own model, and they often fail to see the connection between topics and across models.

The number line can be the anchor we can tie other models to.

I’ll share the step-by-step progression of understanding mathematical concepts based on an increasingly sophisticated number line. We start from counting and take it to reasoning about the additive and multiplicative connections between quantities as basis for proportions, percentages, unit-conversion, and algebra. One overarching model helps students see the red thread in the relationship between operations and concepts. The number line can be the anchor to which other models may be tied

Briefly I will go over some research about the benefits of working with number lines and then we’ll walk through some examples of using number lines for the various operations.