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October 3
California’s New K-2 Math Test Won’t Label Kids. Here’s What Scores Miss. Dyscalculia California’s New K-2 Math Test Won’t Label Kids. Here’s What Scores Miss. California will check every child's math each year, kindergarten through second grade. The law itself bars using the score as a special-education label. But a low score still leaves a…
September 23
Dyscalculia Isn’t a Line Your Child Is On the Wrong Side Of Dyscalculia Dyscalculia Isn’t a Line Your Child Is On the Wrong Side Of A brand-new model of dyscalculia support begins at the moment of diagnosis and ends in recovery or dropout. But the strongest recent research keeps finding that line is blurry. If… Struggling With Math Isn’t One Broken Skill. It’s Several. Dyscalculia Struggling With Math Isn’t One Broken Skill. It’s Several. Your child isn't a numbers person, the story goes, so give them more numbers. A new Stanford study says that misses it: math struggle is spread across several systems at…
September 13
‘Bad at Math’ Isn’t a Real Category. Here’s What Is. Dyscalculia ‘Bad at Math’ Isn’t a Real Category. Here’s What Is. Almost every child who struggles with numbers hears it eventually: you're just bad at math. But when researchers go looking for the clean line between the kids who have the…
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September 12
Orton-Gillingham for Math? Your Child Needs a Roadmap, Not a Label Dyscalculia Orton-Gillingham for Math? Your Child Needs a Roadmap, Not a Label Orton-Gillingham is a reading method, but homeschool and special-education guidance keeps recommending it for dyscalculia too, as if one credential covers both. Math difficulty and reading difficulty are not the…
August 29
Tara Sutaria Has Dyscalculia. The ‘Math Brain’ Myth Needs Rethinking Dyscalculia Tara Sutaria Has Dyscalculia. The ‘Math Brain’ Myth Needs Rethinking A Bollywood star said out loud what a lot of kids whisper: she has dyscalculia, a maths learning disability. The reflex is to call it a missing math brain. The…
August 25
Written Off at Five: Why a Learning Label Is a Starting Point Dyscalculia Written Off at Five: Why a Learning Label Is a Starting Point A specialist told Erin Moore's parents she was the one child in the class who was different. She was five. She is 21 now and finishing a degree, and the…
August 23
Dyscalculia Isn’t One Fixed ‘Math Brain.’ It’s Many Different Profiles Dyscalculia Dyscalculia Isn’t One Fixed ‘Math Brain.’ It’s Many Different Profiles A popular explainer calls dyscalculia a lifelong 'math brain' a child is born with. The research tells a messier, more useful story: many different profiles, no single brain signature, and…
August 21
A Math Screener Flags Dyscalculia Risk. That Flag Is a Starting Line. Dyscalculia A Math Screener Flags Dyscalculia Risk. That Flag Is a Starting Line. WestEd validated a math screener many schools already give to flag which young children are at risk for dyscalculia. The best first-grade cut score caught 96 percent of at-risk kids,…
August 18
Your Child’s Math Panic Is a Fear Response, Not a Verdict Dyscalculia Your Child’s Math Panic Is a Fear Response, Not a Verdict A personal essay by a man diagnosed with dyscalculia at 39 names a toll clinics skip: years of shame, not the math itself. Pair it with a Stanford brain scan…