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& Maths Learning Difficulties into MLD & Dyscalculia Dr Steve Chinn
DYSCALCULIA
ANXIETY, WORKING
MOTIVATION MEMORY
LANGUAGE.
CONSISTENCY
New maths
Materials
Materials are not the answer on their own
Teachers teach
7 take away 3 is 4
73=4
Age 5 11
Age 6 42
Age 7 45
Age 8 11
Reasons:
(130+ responses)
Rate as: 1 minor
2 significant
3 major
Answering quickly: (145) 2.8
Memorising facts: (146) 2.5
Mental arith: (145) 2.2
Writing up sums: (121) 2.0
Carol Vorderman
They have to practise. Sometimes they
have to do 50 sums a week, sometimes
more.
The programme is based on techniques
she had used on her own children.
I remember her (daughter) learning her
times tables in a week when she was six.
More CV
Shes a stickler for the basics, drilling kids
on their times tables, and for practising
sums again and again.
How
How dare you enforce rote learning?
learning? said
some, but without your tables you dont
stand a hope in hell of moving on in
maths.
Teaching division
Division.cv....\shortdivision.mpg
110
Verbal stm
100 Working
memory
90
Doubles
..\NNS98Y2doubles.mpg
Liverpool Rhymes
Twice one are two
Twice two are four
Twice three are six
And theres kids on the floor
Derived Facts
Gray and Tall. 1994. Univ Warwick
Number combinations
Increasingly the term arithmetic (or
number) combinations is used, because
basic problems involving addition and
subtraction can be solved in a variety of
ways and are not always retrieved as
facts.
Gersten, Jordan and Flojo. 2005. JLD v 38 #4
100
90
80
70
60
50 mainstream
40 dyslexics
30
20
10
0
add 4s add 12s mult 4s mult 12s
Visible Learning
Hattie, 2009
The highest effects accrued when
teachers provided feedback data or
recommendations to students.
The
The programmes with greatest effect
were strategy based methods
Least effective were using technology
for independent practice, and the
strategy of working within a peer group
(but I think its more complicated than
that!)
NL
Inchworm
Grasshopper
England
Ireland
England
Ireland
Expectations
From a maths book.Further Activities:
Things to do at Home
TABLES: Choose a multiplication table that is
problematic ..
and learn it!
Learn to say it backwards too.
Multiplication Facts/Combinations
are Pervasive: 3 x 7 = 21
3 x 17 38 x 47 30 x 70
51 3 651 21
2 + 1 = 14 + 3
3 7 21 21
0.3 x 0.7 30% of 70 -3 x -7
3 x 7p 30 x 7g 3 x 70cm 3 x 75cl
2
Area: 3m x 7m 7a x 3b x + 4x - 21
How many days in 3 weeks?
Einstein
Counting
There are three kinds of people in the
world
those
th who
h can countt
Developing concepts
Structure . diagnosis
Facts
Assume nothing!
Multiplication by repeated
addition
The Key Facts are: 1x 2x 5x 10x
3x8 8+8+8
6x8 8+8+8+8+8+8
7x8 8+8+8+8+8+8+8
12 x 8 8+8+8+8+8+8+8+8+8+8+8+8
12 x 8 8+8+8+8+8+8+8+8+8+8+8+8 10 x 8 + 2 x 8
12 x 8 8+8+8+8+8+8+8+8+8+8+8+8 10 x 8 + 2 x 8
12c c + c + c + c + c + c + c + c + c + c + c + c 10c + 2c = 12c
9 x 8 8+8+8+8+8+8+8+8+8+8 (8) 9 x 8 = 10 x 8 8
9d d + d + d + d + d + d + d + d + d 9d = 10d - d
62 x 37 with 37 as 30 + 7
62
x37
1860 62 + 62 + 62 (30 x 62)
434 62 + 62 + 62 (30 x 7)
2294
30 + 7 or 20 + 10 + 5 + 2
1 x 62 = 62
2 x 62 = 124 62 x 20 = 1240
5 x 62 = 310 62 x 10 = 620
10 x 62 = 620 62 x 5 = 310
20 x 62 = 1240 62 x 2 = 124
40 x 62 = 2480 62 x 37 = 2294