Synopses & Reviews
This new book by authors Jane Emerson and Patricia Babtie follows on from their award winning book, the Dyscalculia Assessment. Once careful assessment has identified the particular numeracy difficulties your pupils may have, the Dyscalculia Solution provides a practical teaching guide for addressing and solving those difficulties.
The Dyscalculia Solution includes step-by-step instructions on how to teach pupils to use whole numbers by talking and reasoning about them, and communicating their thinking in a verbal, diagrammatic and written form. The book includes scripts to emphasise the importance of using the correct language to develop numerical thinking, as well as teaching objectives, activities and games which are important for fostering a positive attitude to numeracy. Each new concept builds on previous understanding so that new facts are derived by reasoning from known facts.
The Dyscalculia Solution is ideal for use with primary school children, but can easily be adapted for older students, and is invaluable for SENCOs, TAs, educational psychologists and mainstream teachers, keen to support students with numeracy difficulties in their class.
Accompanying materials in both print and electronic formats to support busy teachers by providing lesson plans and worksheets are available with this book.
Synopsis
The Dyscalculia Solution details an intervention method developed at Emerson House School, which is evidence based. It makes best practice in special needs maths education available to mainstream schools by reproducing Emerson House techniques in a format that can be taught easily. These methods ensure young pupils acquire number sense and a positive attitude to the subject to aid their progression, and are also effective with older pupils.
This systematic, mulit-sensory way of teaching was developed by the late Dorian Yeo to train children to become flexible thinkers who can recognise, generate and use numbers to slove problems. The Dyscalcuia Solution makes her expertise and methodology available more widely.
Accompanying materials in both print and electronic formats to support busy teachers by providing lesson plans and worksheets are available with this book.
About the Author
Jane Emerson is Director of Emerson House, a centre for dyscalculia, dyslexia and dyspraxia. Jane is an experienced teacher of children with dyscalculia and a teacher trainer for courses on dyscalculia assessment and teaching, and a lecturer on dyscalculia. Patricia Babtie is a freelance SEN teacher and has more than 10 years' experience as a dyscalculia special needs teacher in state and private schools.
Table of Contents
Foreword by Professor Brian Butterworth
1 Developing Early Number Sense by Counting
2 Early Calucation Work on Numbers up to 10
3 Place Value for 10 and Above
4 Advanced Calculations for Numbers over 10
5 Teaching a Universal Strategy for Learning Times Tables
6 Developing the Concept of Multiplication and Division
7 The Language of Maths and the Development of Understanding Through Word Problems
8 Fractions
9 Written Calculations
Glossary
Appendix
References
* All chapters contain practical worksheets