Uncover areas for improvement with the Dyscalculia Self-perception Indicator. Designed for adults aged 16 and over, this tool helps assess numerical challenges, providing personalised insights to support your maths journey.
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Start with Dyscalculia Self-Perception Indicator (DSPI)
Identify Areas for Improvement and Unlock Your Maths Potential
Do You Experience Difficulty With Numbers?
Whilst the prevalence of dyscalculia is 5-6%, about 25% of the population is affected by maths learning difficulties.
These challenges can extend to tasks involving numerical reasoning, visualisation, measurement, data handling, time management, and financial planning, making it crucial to provide the right support.
Struggles with dyscalculia may extend to numerical reasoning, which can hinder performance in solving problems that involve manipulating and interpreting data accurately.
Practical aspects of daily life can also be challenging and can range from; navigating a new space, visualising space and shape rotations, following assembly instructions, using visual charts and measurements, time management, and financial planning.
Common Challenges of Dyscalculia
- Managing simple monetary tasks.
- Estimating the time required to complete tasks.
- Planning and organising meetings.
- Navigating distances and directions.
- Keeping track of finances.
- Troubleshooting technical issues.
- Manipulating data using formulae or codes.
- Taking longer to process information.
- Prioritising activities and deadlines.
- Feeling self-conscious about numerical difficulties
- Heightened levels of stress and anxiety.
- Facing barriers in professional advancement with jobs requiring maths.
Start with the Dyscalculia Self-Perception Indicator
Identify Areas for Improvement and Unlock Your Maths Potential
Why Dynamo Post 16?
Unlock Your Mathematical Potential in Just 25 Minutes!
The Dynamo Post 16 Self-perception Indicator and the Number Sense Profiler offer a comprehensive evaluation of your mathematical abilities. These comprehensive screeners provide a deeper understanding of your numeracy skills, essential for various work settings.
Step 1: Dyscalculia Self-perception Indicator (DSPI)
- Encourages reflection on your perceptions and experiences of maths.
- Helps you understand key indicators of cognition and dyscalculia.
- Provides a Maths Anxiety Score to assess emotional responses to maths.
- Offers a Self-Perception Dyscalculia Score to help identify numeracy challenges.
- Includes a Dyscalculia Indicator to guide your understanding of the risk of dyscalculia along the spectrum of maths difficulties.
Step 2: Dyscalculia Number Sense Profiler (DNSP)
- Provides a detailed understanding of where specific learning difficulties lie within the spectrum of maths challenges.
- Identifies specific areas of number strands to allow for targeted study skills support.
- Gives insights into processing speed and other numeracy-related cognitive functions.
- Built on the NumberSenseMMR™ framework, a research-validated model developed by the University of Oxford, which visually profiles number sense development.
- Differentiates between individuals at risk of dyscalculia and those with maths developmental delays, ensuring that support is appropriately targeted.
Why use the Dynamo Post16 Screeners?
- Gain Valuable Insights: Understand your numerical strengths and weaknesses, using evidence-based screeners
- Identify Needs: Discover if you are at risk of dyscalculia or maths developmental delays.
- Visual Profile: Receive easy-to-read reports to seek the necessary training and support.
- Measure Progress: Track your readiness for functional maths skills crucial in today’s job market.
- Personalised Support: Tailor educational support to improve numeracy and address persistent number processing difficulties.
- Identify Next Steps: Determine if a diagnostic assessment for dyscalculia is needed.
