Posts Tagged ‘learning disabilities’
May 20th, 2009
by Nigel in Elementary teachers, Life at DreamBox Learning, Math Learning, Teaching Math, Technology
Sometimes Things Just Don’t Compute…
The genesis of how DreamBox does assessment, and one of the reasons I am with the company, occurred over 30 years ago when one of my relatives was diagnosed with a learning disability.
This surprised us and shocked his teachers, who considered him to be in the upper middle to top third of the class for math. His test scores consistently supported this. In many areas he was significantly ahead of his peers. Yet a detailed examination with an expert showed that for him division just didn't compute. Put another way, his brain simply wasn't "wired for division".
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