Author(s): Patricia Babtie

Childrens Education

100 ideas for Primary Teachers- Numeracy Difficulties and Dyscalculia provides specially-designed games and activities to help build firm foundations in basic number concepts. All the ideas have been tried-and-tested
in specialist and mainstream schools and are designed to encourage children to talk about numbers in a natural way using everyday contexts.
The book begins with a focus on counting skills, before moving on to place value structure, multiplication and division. As well as teaching key facts, the ideas in this book will develop pupils ' understanding so that they become flexible thinkers who can use numbers to solve a variety of mathematical problems. The ideas require minimum preparation and resources, and are perfect for use in mainstream and specialist classrooms,
individual tuition sessions or as homework assignments.