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Subject: mental arithmetic

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Gillian Le Coz

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Date Posted: 03:28:51 04/24/11 Sun

I like to start Maths lessons with a quick session of mental arithmetic. However,noticing that a dyslexic child never participated in these oral quizzes, I decided to write out 2 sets of cards for him: one with the questions on and the other
with the four operations on, (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. As I called out the question, I gave him the respective question card and a card with the correct operation on it, so he only had to calculate the answer, instead of having to work through several different operations. This worked out very well and he soon gained in confidence and was regularly participating. I still give him the individual question cards, but I write all four operations on one card now, so he also has to select the correct operation as well as calculating the answer. He has made excellent progress and gained enormously in confidence.

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Re: mental arithmetic	v pemmaraju (happy)	14:59:27 04/27/11 Wed