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

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Their self-esteem improves, their motivation improves and their mindset changes from a fixed ‘I can’t do maths’ mindset to a ‘I can’t do it yet, but soon I will be able to. Potentially more useful for teachers (and parents) looking for ways to teach, than for the students themselves. We really need to kick that notion into the long grass and have these simple manipulatives available for all children, all the time. 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. Further chapters of the book focus on factors and primes, directed numbers, indices, ratio and proportion, algebra, equations and inequalities, and even quadratics.

In addition to covering the more obvious specific learning challenges, it also delves into topics such as growth mindsets, learning styles, and metacognition. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. We have all, as teachers, experienced the frustration of just not knowing how to get through to a child. It is the driving force behind successful strategies and interventions for many neurodiverse children. I quickly learned that I had to think on my feet and come up with inventive ways of getting my message across, but it was all a bit hit and miss.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…and maybe even learn to love maths! 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. You should think about the fact that some students might not like reading about themselves in this style or might not be able to read it at all. Heather Davis, Independent Mathematics Education Consultant --This text refers to the paperback edition. In any maths classroom there will be children with dyslexia, dyscalculia, dyspraxia and ADHD, plus many more neurodiverse ways of thinking.

I was hoping to find some exam advice on adapting the use of Napier’s bones or perhaps something I hadn’t thought of other than scribbling out my timestables on a piece of squared paper and surreptitiously folding it over. Sadly, the book didn’t go that far, and after some worked examples and plenty of practice questions (answers in the back of the book), we moved onto Chapter 2; place value and decimals. Their attitudes to education and their own self-belief will have been formed and informed by their experience of school up until that point.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. We need to find out what makes them tick, what their fears are, what their motivators are, and to help them to understand how they as individuals learn best. 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.

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.Whilst manipulatives for maths are commonplace in primary school, they are much scarcer in secondary school and if used at all will be often associated with the stigma of ‘having to use the equipment’ something that is reserved for the children that don’t understand.