GCSE Maths for Neurodivergent Learners: Build Your Confidence in Number, Proportion and Algebra

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When she was Senior Lecturer in Inclusion at Edgehill University, she was responsible for developing a PGCE in Dyscalculia and she wrote the British Dyslexia Association's courses on Dyscalculia. It would be fair to say that initial teacher training does little to prepare a teacher to meet the individual needs of all the children they are presented with. We really need to kick that notion into the long grass and have these simple manipulatives available for all children, all the time. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.

Students will be able to put their newly acquired knowledge to the test with the book’s plenty of practise problems. I was still in ‘teacher knows best’ mode and I believe that was a great disservice to the children that I taught when I was straight out of teacher training. Packed to the brim with useful strategies and practical tips, it is aimed at those overlooked by more traditional styles of teaching. Lessons are highly interactive, which ensures that students are actively involved throughout the whole process of learning. In any maths classroom there will be children with dyslexia, dyscalculia, dyspraxia and ADHD, plus many more neurodiverse ways of thinking.Exam preparation tips, a concise glossary, and a collection of photocopiable materials are included in the book’s last chapter. This is the first GCSE maths study guide (covering number, proportion and algebra) that uses engaging multisensory methods of learning for students with specific learning differences. Addressed to the learner, it also contains approaches for specific key topics, meaning learners can dip into the sections as they need to support their learning. In my early days as a teacher, I very naively thought that every child saw maths in the same way that I did.

It explains and explores a range of specific learning differences and encourages the children to develop their metacognitive awareness. I actually enjoy teaching and using Napier’s bones with Key Stages 2 and 3, so I was delighted to see them used here…the problem is, sitting in a GCSE exam, it isn’t one of the allowable items of equipment you can put in your clear plastic pencil case. If you would like to read more articles like this and get the latest news and offers on our books, why not join our mailing list?Their attitudes to education and their own self-belief will have been formed and informed by their experience of school up until that point. If you have been struggling with maths and find working with numbers particularly tough, this is the go-to GCSE maths study guide to help you ace your exams. Students are given a better chance of grasping the material that is being presented thanks to the use of visual aids and activities that require them to use multi-sensory approaches. Sadly, the book didn’t go that far, and after some worked examples and plenty of practice questions (answers in the back of the book), we moved onto Chapter 2; place value and decimals. GCSE Maths for Neurodivergent Learners has been written to enable children to understand their neurodiversity better and to understand how it impacts on their learning.