When 1 + 1 = 5: Dyscalculia and Working Memory

By Dr. Tracy Alloway | January 25, 2012 |

Jacob’s moth­er writes that ‘Jacob, 10-years-old, still strug­gles with num­ber bonds to 10. Learn­ing to tell the time is still slow – he has not mas­tered half-past. Although he man­aged to learn his 5x tables because we prac­ticed all sum­mer, this has now gone’. Jacob has dyscal­cu­lia, a math dis­abil­i­ty where stu­dents strug­gle to learn or…

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7 Key Lessons from the 2011 SharpBrains Summit: Retooling Brain Health for the 21st Century

By Luc P. Beaudoin | April 21, 2011

Sharp­Brains served a high­ly thought-pro­­vok­ing and infor­ma­tive 2011 Vir­tu­al Sum­mit on Retool­ing Brain Health for the 21st Cen­tu­ry over 3 days, March 30th — April 1st. Here is a brief dis­til­la­tion of the large num­ber (40+) of pre­sen­ta­tions. 1.The range and vari­ety of pre­sen­ta­tions left no room for doubt that the dig­i­tal brain health market…

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