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Literacy is central to primary education. It is taught everyday and everyday, many children struggle. Teachers are under pressure to find personalized and distinctive approaches to support children whom struggle with literacy. Support is available for those whom have specific needs but not for children with needs that are harder to identify.
The Language of Mathematics and the Particular Difficulties of Children with Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders
The Language of Mathematics and the Particular Difficulties of Children with Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders
This Chapter
This chapter will examine three interlinked areas: the nature of mathematical learning in the primary school, the mathematical literacy that is used and, in turn, is required for children to be able to both learn mathematical knowledge, and also for them to be fluent in using and relating mathematical ideas, and the difficulties of a particular group of children in navigating and negotiating both. An important element of these two subjects will be the exploration of realistic approaches to mathematics as a way of ...
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