Whilst manipulatives for maths are commonplace in primary school, they are much scarcer in secondary school and if used at all will be often associated with the stigma of ‘having to use the equipment’ something that is reserved for the children that don’t understand. Lessons are highly interactive, which ensures that students are actively involved throughout the whole process of learning.

A valuable addition to any maths teacher's bookshelf, this contains clear, strategic advice on a range of strategies to support learners, depending on the obstacles they face. For anyone with a child in Y 9, 10 or 11 who really struggles with maths, time spent familiarising your child with the techniques, strategies and resources would be time well spent and help build your child's confidence and understanding.

Further chapters of the book focus on factors and primes, directed numbers, indices, ratio and proportion, algebra, equations and inequalities, and even quadratics. It would be fair to say that initial teacher training does little to prepare a teacher to meet the individual needs of all the children they are presented with. I am a specialist dyscalculia teacher (ADT) and although I am originally a trained primary teacher, I often help older pupils with maths difficulties.

Students are given a better chance of grasping the material that is being presented thanks to the use of visual aids and activities that require them to use multi-sensory approaches. In my early days as a teacher, I very naively thought that every child saw maths in the same way that I did. With a range of study strategies and fun activities, the guide covers topics from fractions, multiplication and division to algebra, quadratics and percentages. As a specialist dyscalculia teacher who isn't a secondary maths teacher, I'm really excited about using this book and can already see that my older pupils are going to benefit so much from it. We can all learn maths, we just need the right environment, the right support, and the right mindset.Their attitudes to education and their own self-belief will have been formed and informed by their experience of school up until that point. Addressed to the learner, it also contains approaches for specific key topics, meaning learners can dip into the sections as they need to support their learning.

When she was Senior Lecturer in Inclusion at Edgehill University, she was responsible for developing a PGCE in Dyscalculia and she wrote the British Dyslexia Association's courses on Dyscalculia. The primary goal of this introduction is to define the range of neurodiversities that this book is intended to serve. When it comes to acquiring mathematical knowledge, certain adjustments are required for neurodiverse students. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. In any maths classroom there will be children with dyslexia, dyscalculia, dyspraxia and ADHD, plus many more neurodiverse ways of thinking.

We need to find out what makes them tick, what their fears are, what their motivators are, and to help them to understand how they as individuals learn best. It offers unique insight into why you may find maths extra challenging and gives practical advice on how you can adapt your studying processes to suit the way that you learn best. This is the first GCSE maths study guide (covering number, proportion and algebra) that uses engaging multisensory methods of learning for students with specific learning differences. The way in which the material is presented is quite efficient, and the practise questions are of great assistance. We really need to kick that notion into the long grass and have these simple manipulatives available for all children, all the time.

I would say that for parents, some time would need to be spent reading through and preparing resources, etc before starting to work through. When used correctly, as objects to think with, manipulatives can have a profound effect on a learner and not only in terms of their understanding. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. GCSE Maths for Neurodivergent Learners has been written to enable children to understand their neurodiversity better and to understand how it impacts on their learning. The conventional approaches to education are ineffective for many people, which may result in feelings of exasperation and inadequate performance on the part of the student.If you have been struggling with maths and find working with numbers particularly tough, this is the go-to GCSE maths study guide to help you ace your exams. It explains and explores a range of specific learning differences and encourages the children to develop their metacognitive awareness. It’s intriguing that the focus is on the numerical side of things rather than on more abstract concepts like probability or shape and space.