100 ideas for primary teachers

About this book

Children with dyscalculia have difficulties acquiring basic numeracy skills. A significant number of children fail to acquire the basic numerical skills required to succeed in society and the workplace. 100 ideas for supporting children with dyscalculia provides specially-designed games and activities to help build firm foundations in basic number concepts. All the games and activities have been tried-and-tested in specialist and mainstream schools are designed to encourage children to talk about numbers in a natural way that will help build a positive attitude to numbers. The book begins with a focus on counting skills, before moving on to place value structure, multiplication and division. The aim is to teach understanding and key facts so that pupils will become flexible thinkers who can use numbers to solve a variety of mathematical problems. The ideas in the book require minimum preparation and resources, and are perfect for use in mainstream and specialist classrooms, individual tuition sessions or as homework assignments.