This is part of a series of blog posts working with student P. Student P has been working on her timetables recently in particular the 3′s and 4′s. Some of my work with her has been inspired by another student who has some difficulties with number, Student O. For the last couple of months I’ve [...]
Archive | April, 2012
How can I tutor someone with dyscalculia
Recently I’ve been working with a lot of children and teenagers who have dyscalcuila or difficulties with numbers. First off, what is dyscalculia? A lot of people think that dyscalculia is a switching of numbers much like dyslexia where you switch the p and the b so with numbers you might confuse a 6 for [...]
The Tutoring Approach to Teaching
What I like most about tutoring is that it is not teaching, to put it in simple words. Now, words are just words, so let me explain further. Here I mean teaching as that flow of knowledge in a single direction, like in a river, from the One Who Knows (the Teacher) to the one [...]