This book explores how primary school children with dyslexia or dyspraxia and difficulty in math can learn math and provides practical support and detailed teaching suggestions. It considers cognitive features that underlie difficulty with mathematics generally or with specific aspects of mathematics. It outlines the ways in which children usually…

This book, with accompanying CD-ROMs, was written to help readers understand children's intuitive mathematical thinking and use that knowledge to help children learn mathematics with understanding. Based on more than twenty years of research, this book portrays the development of children's understanding of basic number concepts. Detailed…

This book contains a set of versatile enrichment exercises that cover a very broad range of mathematical topics and applications in algebra from the Moebius strip to the googol. Several criteria have been used in developing the activities and selecting the topics that are included. All of them bear heavily and equally on concerns for curriculum…

Discussed is a way of playing with numbers that leads to interesting results and provides well-disguised drill. (JP)

Presented are several variations of a multiplication game which develops probability and statistical concepts while it reinforces students' arithmetic skills. (JP)

Topics covered include matrices and the Fibonacci sequence, number patterns, groups, geometric arrangement of objects, games involving moving on a network, equivalent equations, and factoring. (DT)

The focus of these worksheets is on problem solving. Verbal problems involving number concepts are presented for primary levels; worksheets for the intermediate grades draw on geometric concepts, measurement, and elementary logic. (DT)

Study tests four predictions derived from Piaget's cognitive theory. (CB)