Math Assessment Reasoning and Strategy

Via mathstrategy.org we run the The Math Assessment Reasoning and Strategy system (MARS for short). It is a free and organized way to interview students and find out what reasoning capabilities and skills they have already developed and what strategies they use.

Often students are assessed based upon the number of right and wrong answers they give but not enough attention is given to the strategies and reasoning they use and how to develop that.

With the MARS system you can interview the student and then run their responses through the system that will generate a document detailing where the student is at this moment, what is to be expected as the next stage and a number of suggestions to get the student there.

Dyscalculia Screener

Many people do not know where their math troubles are coming from. Also, many people do not know if the grade that their child is in, is the right one for them. To provide easy access to screeners that will try to answer those questions, we developed https://dyscalculiascreener.org the place where you can get free or low-cost screeners to find out if there would be a reason to dig deeper and get a full-blown assessment done.

Super power of small numbers

Dyscalculia: News from the web:

It seems that small numbers have superpowers in our brain and can overrule larger numbers. So, the cell for recognizing 3 will shut down the neighbors for 4 and 5 and make sure we easily recognize it is 3. Now this goes away with larger numbers.

Read all about it HERE

Groupitizing and Dyscalculia

Dyscalculia: News from the web:

Interesting research in the underlying processes that make easy arithmetic calculations difficult for people with dyscalculia. It turns out that helping them by offering visual spatial clues to grouping the items, only works with small numbers. People with dyscalculia tend to continue to look at the individual items rather than using groups to find answers.

Read all about it HERE