Mathematics for Dyslexics and Dyscalculics, 4th Edition

Appendix 2Teaching Materials

Some materials can be made, whilst others have to be bought. Unless a supplier is specified, the material is available from educational suppliers such as those listed under ‘Suppliers’.

Walton, M. (1994) Maths Words. From SEN Marketing (see Suppliers)

• 0–5 six‐sided dice
• 1p to 50p six‐sided dice
• Blank playing cards
• Money (plastic or real)
• Base ten (Dienes) blocks
• Poker chips (buy ‘real’ ones, or buy ‘stackers’ from www.crossboweducation.com)
• Large (2 cm+) counters
• Cocktail sticks (in boxes of 100, bundles of 10 and singly)
• Squared paper
• Place value cards (make your own)
• Vocabulary and symbol cards (make your own)
• Abacus
• Geo boards
• Dice (various shapes and values; blank six‐sided dice are obtainable)
• Cuisenaire rods
• Numicon
• Flexitable (www.flexitable.co.uk)
• Multi‐link cubes
• Uni‐fix cubes
• Square counters (from www.crossboweducation.com)
• Beadstrings
• Metre rules: mm divisions, cm divisions and dm divisions
• Number square, 1–100, with counters
• Clock faces (with synchronised hands), for example the Helen Arkell Teaching Clock (www.arkellcentre.org.uk)
• Talking calculators
• Pie chart scales
• 10 dm cube (to hold one litre of liquid)
• Stern pattern boards
• Tape measure
• Trundle wheel
• Kitchen scales

The Dyscalculia/Maths Intervention Kit contains a wide range of materials and is available from Crossbow Education

Suppliers

Crossbow Education. 41 Sawpit Lane, Brocton, Staffordshire ST17 0TEwww.crossboweducation.com

Cuisenaire Company. www.cuisenaire.co.uk

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