Do you know a child who struggles with math?
Northwestern University's (NU) Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience Labratory (DCN) is looking for 8-13 year olds to participate in a Math Research Study
The DCN Lab's Math Project aims to help us better understand the elusive learning disability, dyscalculia (math disability).
Please forward this notice to anyone you know who might want to be a part of this important research.
Who we are looking for:
8-13 year olds who struggle with math
To participate:
Anyone interested in participating should complete our simple DCN Lab Sign-up Form
Though this particular research study only is examining math difficulties in 8-13 year olds, families are welcome to sign up any children under the age of 13 who would be interested in participating in paid learning research studies at NU.
About the Math Project:
For the past two years, researchers at the DCN Lab have been investigating the way numbers are processed in the brain. Math disability affects about 6% of the childhood population and continues into adolescence. We hope that our research will improve diagnoses and remediation of children who struggle with math.
All testing takes place after school or on weekends and is done at Northwestern University on the Evanston Campus and the Center for Advanced MRI research on the Chicago Campus.
Participants who enroll in this research study will be paid.
You will receive a report of your child's performance on academic testing and pictures of your child's brain.
More questions? Contact us!
Phone: 847-467-3168, 847-467-1936
Email: r-mutreja@northwestern.edu
IRB# STU00004819
Monday, February 27, 2012
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How about a parent who struggles with their child's math?
My son is in 4th grade and math is a struggle, I have done the action math for 3 years. Still no improvement as a matter of fact he was complaining that he is doing basic addition and counting dots. So I started to monitor it and that is what he was doing. After attending action Math 3 times a week he would come home with his actually math homework that was a forth grade level. He became very frustrated and was not learning math for his level. I feel it should challenge him and not defeat the purpose, like it was.
How about a parent who struggles with the way math is taught to their child?
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