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Dyslexia and Mathematics: supporting dyslexic pupils in the secondary curriculum

Summary: Secondary teacher’s guides (2.6 specific for mathematics) delivered for inclusive education for dyslexia Author: M Thomson Publication Year: 2007 Electronic Access: http://training.cpdbytes.com/ResourceFiles/All/2_6Maths.pdf Type of document: PDF

Mathematics: Dyslexia and Dyscalculia

Summary: Exploring why those with dyslexia and dyscalculia may experience difficulties with mathematics Author: T Miles Publication Year: 2003 Electronic Access: http://www.dyslexiasa.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Maths.pdf Type of document: PDF

Dyscalculia: From Brain to Education

Summary: Recent research in cognitive and developmental neuroscience. Implications on approaching, understanding and providing effective education for dyscalculia. New interventions to strengthen numerosity processing, including adaptive software, and evidence-based education for dyscalculic learners Author: B Butterworth et al Publication Year: 2011 Electronic Access: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/51169475_Dyscalculia_From_Brain_to_Education Type of document: PDF

Developmental Dyscalculia

Summary: Overview of Dyscalculia – difficulties, recent findings and the defective number module hypothesis Author: B Butterworth Publication Year: 2003 Electronic Access: http://www.mathematicalbrain.com/pdf/HMC26.PDF Type of document: PDF

The housekeeper and the professor

Summary: The story centers around a mathematician, who suffered brain damage in a traffic accident in 1975 and since then can produce only 80 minutes’ worth of memories, and his interactions with a housekeeper (the narrator) and her son “Root” as the Professor shares the beauty of equations with them. Author: Yoko Ogawa Publication Year:…
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189: A Disappearing Number

Summary: A Disappearing Number is a play about the mathematical genius Srinivasa Ramanujan (an impoverished clerk in India) and his relationship with a Cambridge mathematician Godfrey Harold. Author: 365 PLAYS Publication Year: 2011 Electronic Access: https://365plays.wordpress.com/2011/12/11/189-a-disappearing-number/ Type of document: Drama

Curtain up

Summary: An annotated list of science and math related plays reviewed. Author: The internet magazine of reviews Electronic Access: http://www.curtainup.com/scienceplays.html Type of document: Educational asset

Math and theatre

Summary: An alternative teaching of basic arithmetics with the art of theatre. Author: The Institute of Mathematics and art of Sao Paolo Publication Year: 2009 Electronic Access: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeC-O7nNNFk Type of document: Video

Performance / Mathematics: a Dramatisation of Mathematical Methods

Summary: This essay conceptualises the notion of performance mathematics in terms of a paradoxical relationship with the constructed notion of truth, which is shared by theatrical and mathematical performance. Author: Salazar Sutil Publication Year: 2014 Electronic Access: http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/102194/1/Dramatisation.pdf Type of document: Article

A Study on the Relationship between Theater Arts and Student Literacy and Mathematics Achievement

Summary: A Study on the Relationship between Theater Arts and Student Literacy and Mathematics Achievement Author: Inoa, R., Weltsek, G. and Tabone, Carmine Publication Year: 2014 Electronic Access: https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1050665.pdf Type of document: Article