Autistic children, like any children, can make great mathematicians and can have many cognitive strengths and even savant abilities. However, in some cases, different approaches may need to be utilised to best teach maths concepts to autistic students and unlock their mathematicalability. For example...
Does life seem to be full of impossible problems? How many times do you find yourself saying things like “I really don’t understand this maths problem”? Maybe it’s time to introduce yourself to the___of yet. By adding this simple word, you can change everything, “I really don’...
it's a whole variation as to what we're like. For instance, my little brother, he's very severely autistic. He's nonverbal. He can't talk at all. But I love to talk. People often associate autism with liking maths and science and nothing else, but I know so manyautisticpeople ...
She was soinspiredby the people she met online that she decided to start an IT club to teach older people how to use computers and the Internet. She and her friends now organise events and collect money to pay for private teachers. Many people have been helped by the club. A 59-year-...
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Poems and rhymes teach children so many things and are a fabulous way to build early literacy skills. But what poems to use? Oak Meadow has you covered with this fabulous resource. The Nature Corner When my boys were tiny we had a nature table in the corner of our family room. We chan...
Children will live up to expectations or down to them. They’ll look to the important adults in their lives for clues about how hard they should try, and whether the reach is in them. But then there’s the overlap. The overlap between the symptoms of ADHD and other conditions can also...
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and their potential to be an empowering, creative tool. “In many schools today, the phrase ‘computer-aided instruction’ means making the computer teach the child,” he wrote in his influential 1980 bookMindstorms: Children, Computers and Powerful Ideas. “One might say the computer ...