Numicon: Big Ideas

Science & Math

Chinn, Steve

Mathematics

OUP Oxford

Presenting a new method for learning math, this guide is for people who have dyscalculia, a condition characterized by mathematical ability substantially below expectation given a person's age, general intelligence, and education. Dyscalculia can affect a person's life in many ways€”from dealing with a financial budget to keeping track of time€”and this sympathetic, accessible book helps make everyday math easier. It offers alternative techniques for adding, subtracting, dividing, multiplying, fractions, and percentages in an unconventional and relaxed way. Developing one of the most important skills in life enables those with dyscalculia to build confidence in using numbers and feel in control.

Dealing With Dyscalculia: Sum Hope 2

Souvenir Press

Employing a practical and empathetic approach, this mathematics resource advocates for a new teaching methodology that removes any anxiety associated with math. Covering topics such as addition, multiplication tables, fractions, probabilities, algebra, and ratios, this book enables readers to feel in control and to understand, for the first time, how math can be used in one’s daily life. With techniques that link facts, procedures, and ideas, both teachers and students will find this easily accessible work provides a stable foundation upon which an advanced understanding of mathematics can be built.

The Fear of Maths: How to Overcome It: Sum Hope 3

The Trouble with Maths: A Practical Guide to Helping Learners with Numeracy Difficulties

Routledge

Now 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: 
develop flexible cognitive styles 
use alternative strategies to replace an over-reliance on rote-learning for pupils trying to access basic facts 
understand the implications of underlying skills, such as working memory, on learning 
implement effective pre-emptive measures before demotivation sets in 
recognise the manifestations of maths anxiety and tackle affective domain problems 
find approaches to solve word problems 
select appropriate materials and visual images to enhance understanding. 
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.

The Trouble with Maths

More Trouble with Maths

Now in an updated third edition, this invaluable resource takes a practical and accessible approach to identifying and diagnosing many of the factors that contribute to mathematical learning difficulties and dyscalculia. Using a combination of formative and summative approaches, it provides a range of norm-referenced, standardised tests and diagnostic activities, each designed to reveal common error patterns and misconceptions in order to form a basis for intervention. Revised to reflect developments in the understanding of learning difficulties in mathematics, the book gives a diagnostic overview of a range of challenges to mathematical learning, including difficulties in grasping and retaining facts, problems with mathematics vocabulary and maths anxiety. Key features of this book include: <ul>
<li>Photocopiable tests and activities designed to be presented in a low-stress way</li> <li>Guidance on the interpretation of data, allowing diagnosis and assessment to become integrated into everyday teaching</li> <li>Sample reports, showing the diagnostic tests in practice</li>
</ul>
Drawing on tried and tested methods, as well as the author’s extensive experience and expertise, this book is written in an engaging and user-friendly style. It is a vital resource for anyone who wants to accurately identify the depth and nature of mathematical learning difficulties and dyscalculia.

More Trouble with Maths: A Complete Manual to Identifying and Diagnosing Mathematical Difficulties

How to Teach Maths: Understanding Learners' Needs

"How to Teach Maths challenges everything you thought you knew about how maths is taught in classrooms. Award-winning author Steve Chinn overviews many of the long-established methods, the beliefs and the culture of maths teaching with a critical eye. Built on his decades of classroom experience and research, he shows how mathematics teaching across the whole ability range can be radically improved by learning from the successful methods and principles used for the bottom quartile of achievers: the outliers. Chinn guides readers through re-adjusting the presentation of maths to learners, considering learners' needs first, and explains the importance of securing early learning to create a conceptual foundation for later success. This highly accessible book uses clear diagrams and examples to support maths teachers through many critical issues, including: The context of maths education today Topics which cause students the most difficulty Effective communication in the mathematics classroom Addressing maths anxiety The perfect resource for maths teachers at all levels, this book is especially useful for those wanting to teach the foundations of mathematics in a developmental way to learners of all ages and abilities. It has the potential to change the way maths is taught forever"--

How to Teach Maths challenges everything you thought you knew about how maths is taught in classrooms. Award-winning author Steve Chinn casts a critical eye over many of the long-established methods and beliefs of maths teaching. Drawing from decades of classroom experience and research, he shows how mathematics teaching across the whole ability range can be radically improved by learning from the successful methods and principles used for the bottom quartile of achievers: the outliers. Chinn guides readers through re-adjusting the presentation of maths to learners, considering learners’ needs first, and explains the importance of securing early learning to create a conceptual foundation for later success. 
This highly accessible book uses clear diagrams and examples to support maths teachers through many critical issues, including the following: 
The context of maths education today 
Topics that cause students the most difficulty 
Effective communication in the mathematics classroom 
Addressing maths anxiety 
The perfect resource for maths teachers at all levels, this book is especially useful for those wanting to teach the foundations of mathematics in a developmental way to learners of all ages and abilities. It has the potential to change the way maths is taught forever.

What is the trouble with maths? This book offers important insights into the often confusing world of numeracy. By looking at learning difficulties in maths from several perspectives, including the language of mathematics, thinking styles and the demands of individual topics, Steve Chinn delivers a comprehensive text that will become an essential classroom companion to anyone who uses it. Whilst considering every aspect concerning maths and learning, this book provides a perfect balance of advice, guidance and practical activities, enabling the reader to: * develop flexible thinking skills * use alternative strategies for pupils to access basic facts * implement effective preventative measures before disaffection sets in * recognise maths anxiety and tackle self-esteem problems * make accurate ongoing assessments of pupils' difficulties * design informal diagnostic procedures. With useful features such as checklists for the evaluation of books, software and test materials, this book highlights essential skills that will allow teachers to diagnose and address maths difficulties and improve standards. It draws on tried and tested methods based on the author's years of classroom experience to provide an authoritative yet highly accessible one-stop classroom resource for all teachers, classroom assistants, Special Educational Needs Co-ordinators, student teachers, and learning support staff.

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Numicon: Big Ideas

Dealing With Dyscalculia: Sum Hope 2

The Fear of Maths: How to Overcome It: Sum Hope 3

The Trouble with Maths: A Practical Guide to Helping Learners with Numeracy Difficulties

The Trouble with Maths

More Trouble with Maths: A Complete Manual to Identifying and Diagnosing Mathematical Difficulties

More Trouble with Maths

How to Teach Maths: Understanding Learners' Needs

How to Teach Maths: Understanding Learners' Needs

The Trouble with Maths: A Practical Guide to Helping Learners with Numeracy Difficulties