Improve numeracy for all

By Rob Butler2019-11-14T11:07:00

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Help your students improve their numeracy skills with these simple learning aids

When you support students with SEND inclusively, you support all your students’ learning. This series of articles takes that approach to four areas – literacy, numeracy, manipulative skills and executive function skills. This second article focuses on numeracy. Teachers first need to define and explain the necessary vocabulary, then introduce some practical learning aids, such as group work, scaffolding, visualising quantities and plotting data on graphs. This will help students get to a point where they both understand the questions and know how to work out the answers.

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