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Record Nr.

UNINA9910876516903321

Autore

Yeo Dorian

Titolo

Dyslexia, dyspraxia and mathematics / / Dorian Yeo

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; Philadelphia, : Whurr, 2003

ISBN

1-283-85857-6

0-470-69909-4

0-470-69852-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (471 p.)

Disciplina

371.914447

Soggetti

Mathematics - Study and teaching

Dyslexia

Apraxia

Dyslexic children - Education

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Dyslexia, Dyspraxia and Mathematics; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Part I: Definitions and Premises; Chapter 1. Background information; Chapter 2. Teaching premises; Part II: Basic Counting and the Early Stages of Addition and Subtraction; Chapter 3. Counting; Chapter 4. Counting in basic calculation; Part III: The Number System; Chapter 5. Defining the difficulties; Chapter 6. An understanding-based approach to teaching the number structures; Part IV: More Addition and Subtraction: Working with Larger Numbers; Chapter 7. To twenty; Chapter 8. Two-digit addition and subtraction

Chapter 9. More on two-digit addition and subtractionPart V: Multiplication and Division; Chapter 10. The theoretical debates; Chapter 11. An understanding-based approach to multiplication and division for dyslexic and dyspraxic children; Chapter 12. More multiplication and division: working with larger numbers; Appendix; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Written by a teacher with many years' experience of teaching mathematics to primary school dyslexic and dyspraxic children with a wide range of abilities, this book is designed to be a practical teaching guide. It offers detailed guidance and specific teaching suggestions to



all specialist teachers, support teachers, classroom teachers and parents who either directly teach mathematics to dyslexic and dyspraxic children or who support the mathematics teaching programmes of dyslexic or dyspraxic children. Although the book has grown out of teaching experience it is also informed by widely ackn