Math concept books for neurodivergent children?
April 20, 2023 3:46 PM Subscribe
What are your recommendations for resources, books, graphs, charts, etc for teaching math concepts to neurodivergent learners? Assume we're looking for three age ranges: 4-6, 7-9, 10+. Thanks!
My near universal recommendation for both NT and ND kids are the works of Mitsumasa Anno, specifically his Math Games (1, 2 and 3) and Anno's Three Little Pigs. You may need to look for these used, I am not sure which are still in print. The Three Little Pigs essentially teaches basic combinatorics, probably appropriate for the 7-9 and 10+ kids. The math games books work for all ages. (One of the things from the Math Games books was a spot the difference challenge between two images. The two images were almost identical and in fact depicted the same characters in the same poses with the same objects. It's just that one of the images was quite a bit larger than the other. The idea that size could be looked at as a difference, as opposed to every other "spot the difference" puzzle I'd seen really blew me away.)
posted by Hactar at 6:34 PM on April 20, 2023
posted by Hactar at 6:34 PM on April 20, 2023
Have you tried the Bedtime Math books and app yet?
posted by donut_princess at 6:43 PM on April 20, 2023
posted by donut_princess at 6:43 PM on April 20, 2023
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Because it's a complete ecosystem, the color-coding and such carry over and build on prior learning and iconography (units are green, tens are blue, hundreds are red. Always. So when tenths are light blue and hundredths are pink that just makes sense.). Things mean one thing (as opposed to using those linking cubes or animal counters as manipulatives)which is often super-helpful for neurodivergent people, who can get distracted by extraneous symbolic significance, and everything is done in the hand before being done on paper.
posted by DebetEsse at 4:21 PM on April 20, 2023 [1 favorite]