Brain Fact Friday "Understanding Dyscalculia: The Math Learning Disability"

<p>Welcome back to the Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast, for Brain Fact Friday and episode #137.</p> <p>In Today’s Brain Fact Friday You Will Learn:</p> <p>✔︎ Why the Foundational Skills in Literacy and Mathematics are so Important.</p> <p>✔︎ How Students with Reading Difficulties and Like Students with Math Difficulties.</p> <p>✔︎ An Introduction to Dyscalculia: The Math Learning Disability.</p> <p>✔︎ How to Recognize Dyscalculia, and Strategies to Assist Students Who Struggle with Math.</p> <p>✔︎ Many Celebrities Have Dyscalculia and Dyslexia: It’s Not a Matter of Intelligence.</p> <p>I'm Andrea Samadi, a former educator who has been fascinated with understanding the science behind high performance strategies in schools, sports, and the workplace for the past 20 years. If you have been listening to our podcast, you will know that we’ve uncovered that if we want to improve our social and emotional skills, and experience success in our work and personal lives, it all begins with an understanding of our brain.</p> <p>Our goal with this podcast is to bring the most current neuroscience research to you and make it applicable in your life whether you are a teacher in the classroom or using these ideas to improve productivity and results in your workplace. The idea is that these strategies will give you a new angle and provide you with a new way of looking at learning, with the brain in mind. As I am researching and learning new ideas, I’m also implementing them myself, and making connections to past speakers, so that we can all benefit from the research that is emerging in this new field of educational neuroscience.</p> <p>The Importance of The Foundational Skills: Literacy and Mathematics</p> <p>Which brings us to this week’s Brain Fact Friday and the connections I made while recording episode #136<a href='#_edn1'>[i]</a> with Lois Letchford, and her son who failed first grade in 1994 when testing revealed he could only read 10 words, had no strengths and a low IQ and w