Steve Chinn - More Trouble with Maths: A Complete Manual to Identifying and Diagnosing Mathematical Difficulties

This book should be on the shelves of all professionals in the field of maths education and educational assessment it will spearhead a much needed increase in proficiency in the assessment of numeracy skills.

Maggie Snowling, Professor, St Johns College, University of Oxford, UK

Steve Chinns book builds on his previous informative books on maths difficulties. The books main focus is providing assessment and diagnostic routines for maths or dyscalculic difficulties. These are particularly well thought out as they have both standardised tests there are hardly any reliable or detailed enough ones available elsewhere as well as qualitative frameworks for evaluating mathematical problems, with plenty of real life examples. The assessment procedures are clearly linked to suggestions for intervention. If I didnt know already, the experience of Steve Chinn as a teacher, as well as an expert in dyscalulia and similar difficulties, shines through. There are invaluable photocopiable materials. I will be using this in my educational psychology assessment practice and it is a must resource for anyone who is serious about evaluating mathematical difficulties in children or adults.

Michael Thomson, Chartered Educational Psychologist, East Court Assessment Centre

More Trouble with Maths

More Trouble with Maths acknowledges that there are many reasons why children and adults are unable to function mathematically. Difficulties include problems with rote learning basic facts and procedures, debilitating anxiety, poor working and short-term memories and mathematics vocabulary. Central to this new edition is a range of standardised tests and diagnostic activities, including a 15 minute test of basic mathematics, a thinking style test, tests of basic fact retrieval and maths anxiety. Guiding the reader in the interpretation of tests, this new edition shows how identifying the barriers to learning is the first step in a programme of intervention. Written in an engaging and user-friendly style, Steve Chinn draws on his extensive experience and expertise to:

show how to consider and appraise the many factors relating to mathematical learning difficulties

explain how these factors can be investigated

explore their impact on learning mathematics.

Emphasising the need for a clinical approach when assessing individuals, this book shows how diagnosis and assessment can become integrated into everyday teaching. This highly practical and relevant resource is crucial for anyone who wants to accurately and effectively identify the depth and nature of mathematical learning difficulties and dyscalculia.

Steve Chinn is a Visiting Professor at the University of Derby and is also author of The Trouble with Maths, third edition and editor of The Routledge International Handbook of Dyscalculia and Mathematical Learning Difficulties.

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More Trouble with Maths

A complete manual to identifying and diagnosing mathematical difficulties

Second edition

Steve Chinn

This edition published 2017

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First edition published in 2012 by Routledge

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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Names: Chinn, Stephen J.

Title: More trouble with maths : a complete manual to identifying and diagnosing mathematical difficulties / Steve Chinn.

Description: 2nd edition. | Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2016. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2015050372| ISBN 9781138187498 (hardback : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781138187504 (pbk. : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781315643137 (ebook)