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A long time no see....and a question (cheeky)about ASD and numeracy

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loulou77 · 28/02/2012 13:45

Hello....I was a regular poster about a year back when going through the statementing process but have been infrequently lurking of late. I am popping my head up to ask if any of you have any recommendations of ways to help a key stage 1 child with numeracy? This is turning out to be the area which DS (5) struggles with (unlike literacy where, at the moment, he is whizzing along....not that he understands the finer points of some of the stories he is reading....he doesn't care....he READ....EVERYTHING....BRILLIANT...hand me some more friendly letters and bring on those split diagraphs)....school are doing a fab job but I wondered if there were any schemes or strategies which people had tried or heard of that I could at least look at...once he has a strategy he likes, he is away, school are already thinking about how they will go on to deal with this in Y1...I wondered if there was anything I might recommend to them?

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bochead · 28/02/2012 13:57

My son's school seem keen on Numicon. Generally he is doing so well now I haven't bothered to ask why they think it's so good as the results are speaking for themselves iykwim.

tryingtokeepintune · 28/02/2012 14:17

Numicon worked and is still working for us - I still take it out when I want to explain new concepts eg. partitioning, multiplication.

Also make sure ds understand the meaning of the words. Found out my son did not understand add 1 or 1 more although he understood when asked if he wanted more milk etc.

boredandrestless · 28/02/2012 14:21

My son seems to find numeracy easier if it's visual. I bought some of these

www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p3984.m570.l1313&_nkw=counting+cubes&_sacat=See-All-Categories

to help him with addition and subtraction and they worked really well to help him get his head around the theory of it as he could see and touch the cubes.
He also likes visual number lines.

We've hit a stumbling block though now we are trying to learn times tables - he HATES them and refuses to do anything at all to do with times tables.

loulou77 · 28/02/2012 14:23

wow! Quick response....shall have a look through these! Thanks (unMN x)

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