Teaching Students with Dyscalculia

3-Credit Graduate Course: Teaching Students with Dyscalculia

After completing this course, participants will define and recognize dyscalculia, learn teaching strategies and accommodations, and hear the student experience through case studies. Participants earn 3 graduate credit hours from CSU-Pueblo.

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Course curriculum

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ED 501: Teaching Students with Dyscalculia
- Teaching Students with Dyscalculia
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- Graduate Credit Application
- ED 501 Syllabus
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Module 1: Dyscalculia
- Module 1 Overview
- Your instructor
- History of dyscalculia research
- Case Study 1: Cheryl
- Required readings
- Reflection and Discussion Board
- Class Project, Part 1
- Module 1 Quiz 1
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Dyscalculia and Dyslexia
- Dyscalculia_Chapter 1.pdf
- Dyscalculia_Chapter 2.pdf
- Dyscalculia_Chapter 3.pdf
- Dyscalculia_Chapter 4.pdf
- Dyslexia_Chapter 1.pdf
- Dyslexia_Chapter 2.pdf
- Dyslexia_Chapter 3.pdf
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Module 2: Dyscalculia vs Low Numeracy
- Module 2 Overview
- Dyscalculia or Low Numeracy, What's the Difference?
- Case studies 2 and 3: Ernesto and Rose
- Required readings
- Reflection and Discussion Board
- Module 2 Quiz
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Teaching Strategies: Algebra and Geometry
- Algebra Strategies Chapter 1.pdf
- Algebra Strategies Chapter 2.pdf
- Algebra Strategies Chapter 3.pdf
- Algebra Strategies Chapter 4.pdf
- Algebra Strategies Chapter 5.pdf
- Geometry Strategies Chapter 1.pdf
- Geometry Strategies Chapter 2.pdf
- Geometry Strategies Chapter 3.pdf
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Module 3: Dyscalculia in Grades K-5
- Module 3 Overview
- Dyscalculia: Early Issues
- Time, Money, and Place Value: The Dyscalculia Trifecta
- Required readings
- Module 3 Assignments
- Discussion Board
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Teaching Strategies: Math Foundations
- Math Foundations Chapter 1.pdf
- Math Foundations Chapter 2.pdf
- Math Foundations Chapter 3.pdf
- Math Foundations Chapter 4.pdf
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Module 4: Dyscalculia in Grades 6-8
- Module 4 Overview
- Required readings
- Calculators
- Case studies: Kerry and William
- Discussion Board
- Module 4 Quiz
- Module 4 assignment
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Anxiety Disorder
- Anxiety Chapter 1.pdf
- Anxiety Chapter 2.pdf
- Anxiety Chapter 3.pdf
- Anxiety Chapter 4.pdf
- Anxiety Chapter 5.pdf
- Anxiety Chapter 6.pdf
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Module 5: Dyscalculia, 9th Grade to Adults
- Module 5 Overview
- Dyscalculia in High School
- Dyscalculia and Adult Education
- Case studies: Jonathan and Ivy
- Discussion Board
- Module 5 assignment
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Teaching Strategies and Understanding Dysgraphia
- Statistics.pdf
- Calculus.pdf
- Trig Topics.pdf
- Dysgraphia Chapter 1.pdf
- Dysgraphia Chapter 2.pdf
- Dysgraphia Chapter 3.pdf
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Final thoughts
- Completion and credit
- Course survey

Social proof: testimonials

"I plan to share this course."

Kelly, Teacher

"I learned how dyscalculia affects the brain and effective interventions and modifications to help them. I learned how a dyscalculia can affect a student both in the classroom and the real world. I learned how to use multimodal teaching strategies with incorporates many senses and can help math concepts to be stored in different parts of the brain."

"The content was great."

Dustin, Teacher

"I learned what dyscalculia is, some of the hallmark signs that a student is dyscalculic, and how I as a teacher can help accommodate for this disability and help students move beyond the fundamental math that causes them such difficulty."

"Better experience than most professional development I have taken."

Rob, Teacher

"I learned that dyscalculia is a specific learning disability that affects an individual's ability to acquire arithmetic skills, particularly the ability to understand and manipulate and retain numbers."