January 2017
Intermediate to advanced
360 pages
9h 53m
English
Content preview from Mathematics for Dyslexics and Dyscalculics, 4th Edition
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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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