10 Great Visual Math Apps
Here are 10 GREAT Math Apps I found for your elementary kids to visually practice their math skills!
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Podcast: Study Tips for Visual Students Young and Old.
With most of the children from third grade through high school taking standardized tests this Spring, I thought you might find these useful.
Hate Tests? There’s a Reason Why
The right side of your brain is in a panic. It broke into a cold sweat just thinking about taking a test. The right side hates multiple choice, short answer, true false questions and essays. It’s completely contrary to the way the right side of the brain works.
Tune In and Be Amazed
Are you looking for a way to get information when screen time is not an option? With the increase in digital media opportunities, it is hard to sift through the content to find what you need. We have recently released our podcast.
The Challenge of Reading and Writing
For most kids, a big stack of books can seem intimidating, even dry, especially for visual learners. Visual kids thrive when they are actively involved in the learning process and it needs to include opportunities for them to be creative.
In Case You Missed It…
This month we shared some Fun and Easy Fall Activities, exciting news about my new Podcasts as well as many tips and tools for a visual kids to succeed in school. In case you missed it they are all here…
How Visual Kids Learn And How Schools Teach
In an effort to better understand why visual kids struggle in the language heavy classrooms, I have complied a list that compares – How Visual Learners Think and The Way Schools Teach. While the traits listed are common to visual learners overall, not all children are exactly alike and not all schools teach exactly the same way…
10 Study Tips for Visual Learners
Visual students don’t usually test well and may even struggle with test anxiety. Right brain, visual-spatial individuals are conceptual, non-linear thinkers and they often miss details, struggle with memorization and prefer images over words. But there are always going to be tests at school…
We have some great news!
My podcast – Living Life as a Visual Thinker – has just been published and is now available on ITunes. And as much as I write about struggles and advantages of being a visual thinker, now you can LISTEN and find out more.
Reading Help
A few weeks ago my sister Diane called to talk about her granddaughter Lanie. 
It seems her first grade teacher had some concerns about her reading and wanted to meet with Lanie’s mom and dad. They talked as a family about what the stumbling block might be and remembered our conversations about visual learners. Lanie is a visual learner and she loves to draw. She loves to draw anywhere, anytime, all the time. She takes weekly Young Rembrandts classes at her elementary school. Lanie is a visual learner – but not because she loves art. She’s a visual learner because that is how her brain is wired.
