The Dyscalculia Solution: Teaching Number Sense

This new book by authors Jane Emerson and Patricia Babtie follows on from their award winning book, the Dyscalculia Assessment. Once careful assessment has identified the particular numeracy difficulties your pupils may have, the Dyscalculia Solution provides a practical teaching guide for addressing and solving those difficulties.

The Dyscalculia Solution includes step-by-step instructions on how to teach pupils to use whole numbers by talking and reasoning about them, and communicating their thinking in a verbal, diagrammatic and written form. The book includes scripts to emphasise the importance of using the correct language to develop numerical thinking, as well as teaching objectives, activities and games which are important for fostering a positive attitude to numeracy. Each new concept builds on previous understanding so that new facts are derived by reasoning from known facts.

The Dyscalculia Solution is ideal for use with primary school children, but can easily be adapted for older students, and is invaluable for SENCOs, TAs, educational psychologists and mainstream teachers, keen to support students with numeracy difficulties in their class.

Accompanying materials in both print and electronic formats to support busy teachers by providing lesson plans and worksheets are available with this book.


About the Author

Jane Emerson is Director of Emerson House, a centre for dyscalculia, dyslexia and dyspraxia. Jane is an experienced teacher of children with dyscalculia and a teacher trainer for courses on dyscalculia assessment and teaching, and a lecturer on dyscalculia.

Patricia Babtie is an SEN teacher who works with children and adults with maths learning difficulties.

Brian Butterworth is Emeritus Professor of Cognitive Neuropsychology at University College London