matt
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Post by matt on Sept 29, 2020 13:10:25 GMT
I am working with a year 10 student who has not attended school for nearly 3 years due to anxiety. At the moment he refuses to write anything down. He is however good at maths (so not really a dyscalculia question). He was able to do quite tricky division in his head and usually get the correct answer and explain how he got there, often a combination of different approaches. I am looking for lots of mental maths activities or problems that can be done with absolute minimum writing, if anyone knows of any good resources for this online I would be most grateful. I already use Nrich problems with him. Thanks in advance. Matt. (the plan is to get him recording his workings eventually but this will be a slow process)
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Post by catherine on Sept 29, 2020 15:22:53 GMT
There are lots of interactive resources on http://www.mathspad.co.uk (you do need to pay a subscription fee but it isn’t too much). For some of my students, I write down the workings while they speak - is this something that you could try as an intermediate stage? Most of my anxious students prefer using a whiteboard over paper.
Hope that helps.
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matt
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Post by matt on Sept 30, 2020 10:52:41 GMT
Thanks Catherine, I will have a look at Maths pad
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Post by bernadette on Oct 3, 2020 13:48:48 GMT
Hi Matt. Are you working online with him? If so, I assume you are using Bitpaper as well? A lot of anxious pupils seem to enjoy online more than face to face I find - they also are more inclined to write on the interactive whiteboard too. We can laugh together at my horrible handwriting/number formation online which breaks the ice and takes some of the pressure off.
If online, you could probably use a snip tool to copy and paste part of worksheets and model answers on to Bitpaper, and then scribe the numbers for him, working up to him actually writing one answer per week, then two, then three and so forth.
If face to face, I would echo what Catherine says and write for him, and then 'take turns' etc. and build it up from there (almost like a maths version of 'paired reading!) My heart goes out to this boy.
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