Visiting International Professor Brings Global Math Perspective
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The Arcadia University Faculty Spotlight Lecture Series presents Visiting International Professor Dr. Wolfram Meyerhöfer, from Germany, on Thursday, Feb. 5, at 4 p.m. in the Rose and Mirror Rooms of Grey Towers Castle at Arcadia University. His focus is mathematics education.
Meyerhöfer's lecture, “How We Make Our Children Ill: Some Analyses of Dyscalculia and ADHD,” addresses Dyscalculia, which labels a specific developmental disability affecting a person's ability to conceptualize and perform mathematics. His lecture discusses a school's responsibility for the learning of all pupils instead of labeling bad learners with diseases, the potential for special education approaches to support children's learning, and the social/cultural impact of professionalizing education. The lecture is free and open to the public. Read more.
Dr. Wolfram Meyerhöfer's lecture brought up some provoking questions about mathematics education. We label students with all kind of diseases when the educational system cannot get these children to understand math as early as first and second grade. With the label on a student as being special, the educational system is freed from having to teach this child math. Most of these kids do not have a disease, but instead are not taught to understand numeracy and basic math early in their schooling.
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