Overcoming Dyscalculia and Difficulties with Number

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