GCSE Maths for Neurodivergent Learners: Build Your Confidence in Number, Proportion and Algebra

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In addition to covering the more obvious specific learning challenges, it also delves into topics such as growth mindsets, learning styles, and metacognition.

If you have been struggling with maths and find working with numbers particularly tough, this is the go-to GCSE maths study guide to help you ace your exams.GCSE Maths for Neurodivergent Learners has been written to enable children to understand their neurodiversity better and to understand how it impacts on their learning. I teach a L3 Teaching Assistant Apprenticeship Program and all my TAs have to pass level 2 functional skills in Maths and English before the end of the program (or have a suitable alternative qualification. It provides valuable insight (for the learner and those working with them) into the challenges being neurodiverse can have on the acquisition of maths, but then offers essential tips on overcoming these challenges to achieve success. In my early days as a teacher, I very naively thought that every child saw maths in the same way that I did.

Potentially more useful for teachers (and parents) looking for ways to teach, than for the students themselves. Students will be able to put their newly acquired knowledge to the test with the book’s plenty of practise problems. When she was Senior Lecturer in Inclusion at Edgehill University, she was responsible for developing a PGCE in Dyscalculia and she wrote the British Dyslexia Association's courses on Dyscalculia. Heather Davis, Independent Mathematics Education Consultant --This text refers to the paperback edition. I won’t go into the detail of every chapter – but there were some I liked and some where I felt they were great for teaching but of little use in life or in the GCSE exams which they were being written for.Interesting and varied in its effects on human emotion, behaviour, thought, and learning, neurodiversity is a fascinating and multifaceted aspect of human diversity. Their attitudes to education and their own self-belief will have been formed and informed by their experience of school up until that point. Exam preparation tips, a concise glossary, and a collection of photocopiable materials are included in the book’s last chapter.

A valuable addition to any maths teacher's bookshelf, this contains clear, strategic advice on a range of strategies to support learners, depending on the obstacles they face. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. It is the driving force behind successful strategies and interventions for many neurodiverse children.

The way in which the material is presented is quite efficient, and the practise questions are of great assistance. With everything tailored to suit young people who think and learn differently, this GCSE maths study guide has all you need to improve your maths skills. Further chapters of the book focus on factors and primes, directed numbers, indices, ratio and proportion, algebra, equations and inequalities, and even quadratics. Since she has trouble with decimals, fractions, and percentages, I had my TA read through that section of the book.