The Trouble with Maths: A Practical Guide to Helping Learners with Numeracy DifficultiesNow in its fourth edition, with updates to reflect developments in our understanding of learning difficulties in maths, this award-winning text provides vital, pragmatic insights into the often-confusing world of numeracy. By looking at learning difficulties in maths and dyscalculia from several perspectives, for example, the vocabulary and language of maths, cognitive style and the demands of individual procedures, this book provides a complete overview of the most frequently occurring problems associated with maths teaching and learning. Drawing on tried-and-tested methods based on research and Steve Chinn’s decades of classroom experience, it provides an authoritative yet accessible one-stop classroom resource. Combining advice, guidance and practical activities, this user-friendly guide will help you to:
With useful features such as checklists for the evaluation of books and an overview of resources, this book will equip you with essential skills to help you tackle your pupils’ maths difficulties and improve standards for all learners. This book will be useful for all teachers, classroom assistants, learning support assistants and parents. |
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... early experiences and thus that these basics need to be addressed within any intervention. •. pre-empt learning problems. •. develop flexible cognitive skills and encourage metacognition. •. circumvent problems in basic numeracy by ...
... early in maths.) •. Mathematical memory. A generalised memory for mathematical relationships and for methods of problem solving. He goes on to state that 'These components are closely interrelated, influencing one another and forming in ...
... early descriptions focused on early numerical skills, an emphasis that is still dominant. The term developmental dyscalculia distinguishes these difficulties in maths from those acquired by some traumatic injury to the brain, that is ...
... early maths work. One of the leading workers in the field, Geary noted as early as 1994 that Owith regard to basic-arithmetic-related deficits, the neuropsychological studies converged on many of same conclusions as the cognitive ...
... early days as Bugden and Ansari (2015) have noted: Neuroimaging studies investigating the cognitive mechanisms that contribute to DD deficits have yielded an inconsistent and hard to interpret pattern of data. Given the early stages of ...
Contents
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2 Factors that affect learning | 24 |
3 What the curriculum asks pupils to do and where difficulties may occur | 47 |
4 Cognitive style in mathematics | 71 |
a pragmatic approach | 90 |
6 The vocabulary and language of mathematics | 110 |
7 Anxiety attributions and communication | 123 |
8 The inconsistencies of mathematics | 136 |
multisensory learning | 143 |
long division and fractions | 162 |
Appendix 1 Further reading | 178 |
Appendix 2 Checklists | 179 |
Appendix 3 Resources | 181 |
References and notes | 183 |
Index | 187 |
Other editions - View all
The Trouble with Maths: A Practical Guide to Helping Learners with Numeracy ... Steve Chinn No preview available - 2020 |
The Trouble with Maths: A Practical Guide to Helping Learners with Numeracy ... Steve Chinn No preview available - 2020 |
The Trouble with Maths: A Practical Guide to Helping Learners with Numeracy ... Steve Chinn No preview available - 2020 |