With everything tailored to suit young people who think and learn differently, this GCSE maths study guide has all you need to improve your maths skills. 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.

Their attitudes to education and their own self-belief will have been formed and informed by their experience of school up until that point. In any maths classroom there will be children with dyslexia, dyscalculia, dyspraxia and ADHD, plus many more neurodiverse ways of thinking. The study guide covers fundamental topics in a straightforward, easy to follow way with useful visual images and practical examples to aid understanding.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. 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?

In addition to covering the more obvious specific learning challenges, it also delves into topics such as growth mindsets, learning styles, and metacognition. You should think about the fact that some students might not like reading about themselves in this style or might not be able to read it at all.We have all, as teachers, experienced the frustration of just not knowing how to get through to a child. A valuable addition to any maths teacher's bookshelf, this contains clear, strategic advice on a range of strategies to support learners, depending on the obstacles they face. I quickly learned that I had to think on my feet and come up with inventive ways of getting my message across, but it was all a bit hit and miss. Interesting and varied in its effects on human emotion, behaviour, thought, and learning, neurodiversity is a fascinating and multifaceted aspect of human diversity. Heather Davis, Independent Mathematics Education Consultant --This text refers to the paperback edition.

I was hoping to find some exam advice on adapting the use of Napier’s bones or perhaps something I hadn’t thought of other than scribbling out my timestables on a piece of squared paper and surreptitiously folding it over. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. The conventional approaches to education are ineffective for many people, which may result in feelings of exasperation and inadequate performance on the part of the student. We really need to kick that notion into the long grass and have these simple manipulatives available for all children, all the time. In a class of 30 children, there will be 30 individual profiles and personalities, all with their own strengths, weaknesses and interests.

The book illustrates the effective use of a wide range of resources and manipulatives, and shows the children how important visualisation is in learning maths. It offers unique insight into why you may find maths extra challenging and gives practical advice on how you can adapt your studying processes to suit the way that you learn best.

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.

It provides valuable insight (for the learner and those working with them) into the challenges being neurodiverse can have on the acquisition of maths, but then offers essential tips on overcoming these challenges to achieve success.