Training Objectives:
To provide practical strategies and tools to help professionals better understand learners’ mathematical difficulties, identify error patterns, develop problem-solving and metacognitive skills, and implement appropriate remedial approaches
- Types of Mathematical Problems
- Additive problems
- Multiplicative problems
- Proportional reasoning
- Arithmetic vs. logical problems
- Analysis of Common Errors
- Identifying common error patterns
- Understanding the underlying causes of errors
- Using errors as a basis for targeted support
- Development of Metacognitive Skills
- Planning strategies
- Self-monitoring
- Self-regulation
- Developing learners’ awareness of their own problem-solving processes
- Therapeutic and Remedial Approaches
- Reformulation
- Visualization and schematization
- Hands-on manipulation
- Using concrete and visual supports to facilitate mathematical reasoning
- Assessment Tools
- Validated assessment tools
- Practical tools for clinical and educational use
- Using assessment results to guide intervention and remediation
Biography:
Sandra El Hajj, Speech-language therapist
- Specialist in logical-mathematical skills and oral/written language development.
- Kindergarten Cycle Coordinator at École des Sœurs de la Charité – Besançon (Baabda)
- Educational advisor and coordinator for math and language in preschool and early primary levels (KG1–Grade 1).