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Number Sense and Number Nonsense: Understanding the Challenges of Learning Math
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Krasa, Nancy; Shunkwiler, Sara – Brookes Publishing Company, 2009
How do children learn math--and why do some children struggle with it? The answers are in "Number Sense and Number Nonsense," a straightforward, reader-friendly book for education professionals and an invaluable multidisciplinary resource for researchers. More than a first-ever research synthesis, this highly accessible book brings math…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Learning Problems, Numbers, Arithmetic
Learning Style Profile Handbook: I. Developing Cognitive Skills.
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Jenkins, John M.; And Others – 1990
The National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP) published a new learning style instrument in 1986--the NASSP Learning Style Profile (LSP). The LSP yields independent scores on 24 discrete elements of learning style. Its purpose is to provide educators with a well-validated and easy to use instrument for diagnosing cognitive styles,…
Descriptors: Classification, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, Cognitive Tests
Eye to Eye: Connecting with Gifted Visual-Spatial Learners.
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Mann, Rebecca L. – Gifted Child Today, 2001
This article discusses the strengths of gifted visual-spatial learners and their struggles with simple concepts. Strategies for teaching visual-spatial learners are provided including general strategies, strategies for making material more meaningful, ways to help such students during lectures, foreign language strategies, math strategies, and…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Classroom Techniques, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style
Silver Drawing Test of Cognitive Skills and Adjustment. Drawing What You Predict, What You See, and What You Imagine.
Silver, Rawley – 1990
This manual is a revision of the manual originally published in 1983. Since then it has been discovered that stimulus drawing tasks, like the Drawing from Imagination subtest of the Silver Drawing Test of Cognitive and Creative Skills (SDT), can be used to screen for depression and emotional adjustment. New research findings are the basis for…
Descriptors: Adults, Children, Cognitive Processes, Depression (Psychology)
Upside-Down Brilliance: The Visual-Spatial Learner.
Silverman, Linda Kreger – 2002
This book describes the unique characteristics of visual-spatial learners and teaching techniques designed for this population. Following a quiz to identify visual-spatial learners, chapters address: (1) how visual-spatial learners think and the plight of being non-sequential; (2) the power of the right hemisphere, eye movement patterns, and…
Descriptors: Adults, Auditory Perception, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Classroom Techniques
Cognitive Assessment System.
Naglieri, Jack A.; Das, J. P. – 1997
This kit contains materials necessary to administer the Cognitive Assessment System (CAS), an assessment battery designed to evaluate cognitive processing in children 5 through 17 years of age. Derived from the Planning, Attention, Simultaneous, and Successive (PASS) theory, the four processing areas comprise the four scales that make up the CAS.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Attention Span, Children, Cognitive Ability
Cultivating Minds: A Logo Casebook.
Weir, Sylvia – 1987
This book describes the nurturing of a variety of learning styles through the use of the Logo programming approach, especially for persons with special needs. The book interweaves case descriptions of microcomputer uses with theoretical analysis, to provide educators with a framework for thinking about their students' thinking. Descriptions of the…
Descriptors: Autism, Case Studies, Cerebral Palsy, Cognitive Processes