Math and Dyscalculia Screening Test (MDST)

The complete online Math and Dyscalculia Screener Test has 15 parts, but no one will complete all 15 parts. Depending on your age and grade you will complete a maximum of 14 or a minimum of 8 parts of the online Math and Dyscalculia Screener Test. As the system is dynamic, there is no indication of how many parts you have completed and how many you still need to do.

The Math and Dyscalculia Screening Test (MDST) is an interactive computerized assessment that combines Number Sense and Math Achievement. The complexity of questions keeps increasing, when students do well and easier questions are provided, when a student has several mistakes in a row. The average response time on a general reaction test (slow processing or fast processing) is compared with answering times on the various components. It gives an initial result based on the grade placement entered at the start of the screening.

The modules include:

·        A baseline reaction time Approximate number sense

·        Dice test Picture comparison

·        Skip count Missing numbers

·       Number line Block test

·        Visualizing area Visualizing fractions

·        Calculations with: Counting, Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, Division, Fractions,  Percent, Decimals, and Exponents

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