Quoting from the Wikipedia:

Dyscalculia (or math disability) is a specific learning disability involving innate difficulty in learning or comprehending arithmetic. It is akin to dyslexia and includes difficulty in understanding numbers, learning how to manipulate numbers, learning maths facts, and a number of other related symptoms (although there is no exact form of the disability).

The following newspaper article contains some interesting findings about dyscalculia.

One of the challenges that curriculum developers face is that the world is changing. How does one design a curriculum that is appropriate relevant to the past, present, and future? When aspects of the world that relate to education are changing only slowly, then it is easy to justify an educational system that is strongly backward looking. When aspects of the world that relate to education are changing quite rapidly, then careful thought has to be given about how to prepare students to cope with the rapidly changing future in which they will live.

People have been aware of this challenge for a very long time. Here are two quotations from Plato (Classical Greek philosopher, mathematician, student of Socrates, writer of philosophical dialogues, and founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world; 424/423 BC–348/347 BC.)

The National Research Council publishes a large number of books. They make them available free on the Web. Here is a recent example:

Click here to learn about Dave Moursund's free book on science and technology education for teaches and parents of K-8 children.

= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =

I am pleased to announce the publication of a new book:

This blog entry is based on the article:

Vanides, Jim (November 2010). 10 Amazing Ed Tech Examples from the 2010 HP EdTech Innovators Awards. Retrieved 12/2/2010 from http://www.guide2digitallearning.com/blog_jim_vanides/10_amazing_ed_tech_examples_2010_hp_edtech_innovators_awards.

Quoting from the article: