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Understanding Dyscalculia and Numeracy Difficulties: A Guide for Parents, Teachers and Other Professionals
Jane Emerson
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Description for Understanding Dyscalculia and Numeracy Difficulties: A Guide for Parents, Teachers and Other Professionals
Paperback. A complete, accessible guide to understanding dyscalculia and poor numeracy, this book covers number sense and how the brain processes numbers, assessment, planning intervention, what to teach, how to teach it, and how parents can help. Essential for parents, teachers and education professionals working with a child with numeracy difficulties. Num Pages: 184 pages, 61 diagrams. BIC Classification: JNSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 14. Weight in Grams: 280.
Dyscalculia is a specific learning difficulty that affects the acquisition of numerical skills. A far larger number of pupils, while not dyscalculic, fail to acquire the basic numerical skills required for everyday life. Whatever the cause of poor numeracy it is essential that these difficulties are identified and addressed. This book looks at how adults can help identify each child's specific areas of difficulty and describes a multi-sensory approach that can be adapted for the needs of each student to help them better understand numbers and apply that understanding to solve problems. It covers the origins ... Read more
Dyscalculia is a specific learning difficulty that affects the acquisition of numerical skills. A far larger number of pupils, while not dyscalculic, fail to acquire the basic numerical skills required for everyday life. Whatever the cause of poor numeracy it is essential that these difficulties are identified and addressed. This book looks at how adults can help identify each child's specific areas of difficulty and describes a multi-sensory approach that can be adapted for the needs of each student to help them better understand numbers and apply that understanding to solve problems. It covers the origins ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
184
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781849053907
SKU
V9781849053907
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99-2
About Jane Emerson
Patricia Babtie has taught children and adults with maths learning difficulties since 1998. She is particularly interested in devising ways to make SEN interventions easier to integrate into the classroom, and in developing ways to engage parents. Jane Emerson is Director of Emerson House, a renowned centre for dyslexia, dyscalculia and dyspraxia, in London. She is a speech and language ... Read more
Reviews for Understanding Dyscalculia and Numeracy Difficulties: A Guide for Parents, Teachers and Other Professionals
Babtie and Emerson have made their way through a thicket of jargon-dense research and come out the other side with a one-stop shop for understanding dyscalculia. The title is too modest. Understanding Dyscalculia and Numeracy Difficulties does so much more than make sense of this little understood condition, it provides practical advice for working through it that in our modern, ... Read more