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Diagramming Math [Premium]

by Dyslexic Advantage Team | | dyslexia, Education, Learning, Math, Premium, Premium Content, Resources, Strategies

When we tested older students in our clinic who were in college on STEM tracks, I often asked students who were proficient in mathematics, what strategies were most helpful to them. Many of them found their own ways of solving problems - often using spatial and mental...

Reading and Mathematics [Premium]

by Dyslexic Advantage Team | | Dyscalculia, dyslexia, Education, Learning, Math, Premium, Premium Content, Reading, Strategies, Teaching

“Mathematics texts are more conceptually dense than almost any other type of text…Additionally, reading mathematics often differs from other types of reading because in addition to reading left to right and top to bottom, students must jump around the page to associate text with tables, graphs, symbols, and vice-versa…” The subject of reading in math […]

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Ways to Keep Math Alive

by Dyslexic Advantage Team | | creativity, Dyscalculia, Math

1. CARD GAMES With a little twist, card games like War and Go Fish can be used to help kids hold onto math facts and math manipulations over the summer. If War (higher card win) is too simple, then Subtraction War (figuring out the difference between two cards) might...