by Beth Beamish | Aug 4, 2025 | Dyslexia Blog, Other Learning Challenges
Thanks to dyscalculia tutor Katharine Beaumont for her help with this post. Mathematics – even the word makes me sweat. Trying to say dyscalculia sends me into a tailspin. At school, I had a very old-fashioned maths teacher who sat his pupils according to their latest...
by Beth Beamish | Mar 4, 2022 | Dyslexia Blog, Dyslexia Highlight, Education & Parenting
Children with dyslexia need a way to anchor facts in their memory to stop them from floating away. Teaching multiplication tables using stories helps anchor these tricky facts. In a school staffroom, I heard a teacher say to a colleague, “How hard is it for a child to...
