Overcoming Dyscalculia and Difficulties with Number 2/e

Ronit Bird is a teacher whose interest in pupils with specific learning difficulties began with a focus on dyslexia. She qualified as a teacher at London University and subsequently gained a further qualification as a specialist teacher of learners with SpLD. While working with dyslexic pupils in a mainstream school, Ronit started to develop strategies and teaching activities to help support the learning of pupils who were experiencing difficulties in maths. Ronit has taught in both primary and secondary settings, and has worked as a SENCO in both the independent and state sectors. As part of the Harrow Dyscalculia Project in 2006-2010, Ronit ran training courses on dyscalculia for subject leaders, teachers and teaching assistants, later working in an advisory capacity with participating schools across the Harrow LEA. Ronit currently works as a teacher and continues to create and deliver professional development courses for teachers. Over the past few years Ronit has developed a growing interest in making demonstration videos for teachers and parents.

Part I: Stop Counting in Ones Chapter 1: How to help pupils stop counting in ones Part II: The Bridging Technique Chapter 2: Pre-skills for learning the bridging technique Chapter 3: Bridging through 10 Chapter 4: Bridging through multiples of 10 Part III: The Area Model of Multiplication and Division Chapter 5: Pre-skills for the area model of multiplication and division Chapter 6: The area model of multiplication and division Chapter 7: Making the transition from the area model to standard written algorithms for short and long multiplication Chapter 8: Making the transition from the area model to standard written algorithms for short and long division Part IV: Reasoning Strategies Chapter 9: Reasoning Strategies Part V: Games Collection

The underlying teaching approach in all Ronit Bird's work is to provide the necessary concrete and practical experience in an enjoyable manner - through games and activities, not worksheets - while at the same time helping learners through the important transition between concrete and abstract calculation techniques - Jan Beechey -- Jan Beechey * Dyslexia Review *