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Davis^® Maths Mastery

 

Basic Outline of a five-day Davis Maths Mastery Programme:

 

· Davis Perceptual Ability Assessment and Personal Profile Interview

· Davis Orientation Counselling

· Mastery of basic language symbols, as needed

· Introduction to Davis Symbol Mastery

· Mastery of the foundation concepts underlying all mathematics: Change, Cause-Effect, Before-After, Consequence, Time, Sequence, and Order vs. Disorder

· Davis Maths Function Exercises: Twelve exercises which quickly lead to competency with dividing three-digit numbers including decimals.

· Symbol Mastery practice on Story Problem Trigger Words: For example the word "by." The common meaning in everyday language would be "close to." There are two separate meanings which must be mastered for accurate comprehension in maths -- for multiplication the meaning would be "using as a multiplier," and for division the meaning would be "into groups of."

· Comprehension practice reading story problems, as needed.

· Symbol Mastery on Key glossary words of maths text book, if needed.

· Results Assessment Interview.

· Support training for teachers, tutors, parents and/or helpers.

· A Going Home Kit with a manual and materials necessary for successful follow-up to the programme. (Follow up consists of mastering the meanings of 21 "trigger words" which describe maths functions.)

 

The above information is excerpted from http://www.dyslexia.com/math.htm
Copyright © 2001 by Davis Dyslexia Association International

 

 

Further Reading:

 

The Gift of Dyslexia,

by Ronald D. Davis.

The Gift of Learning,

by Ronald D. Davis.

The Everything Parent’s Guide to Children with Dyslexia,

by Abigail Marshall

 

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