Dynamo Math - Overview

Dynamo Math is an award-winning, research and evidence-based intervention that assists students struggling with math.

Math difficulty lie on a spectrum, and Dynamo Math helps in the early detection of students who may be at risk for dyscalculia.

Dynamo Math takes an integrated approach that allows for a targeted intervention where the screener presents students with a individualised Scheme of Work from which Individual Education Plans (IEP) can be extracted and auto-personalised to a blended intervention.

Dynamo Math success lies in its  graduated approach using four important stages:

  1. Assess
  2. Plan
  3. Intervene
  4. Review

 

 

Code of Practice

The easy-to-use process mean that classroom teachers, special education teachers,  interventionists, parents and specialists can follow the seamless and graduated approach from the standardised assessment to a blended  intervention. 

The entire process of intervention is backed by performance data that is dynamically presented and informs both progress and next steps of intervention.

Why is Dynamo Maths successful?

The Program uses the researched and validated NumberSenseMMR™ framework to identify:

  1. Symptoms of dyscalculia and/or
  2. Math developmental delays

The assessment drives the intervention and delivers:

  • Standardised Score and Percentile rank
  • Individualised Number Sense Developmental Profile
  • Individualised Support Plan with a Scheme of Work signposted to Dynamo Intervention

The personalisation feature offers an individual intervention pathway based on the assessment recommendations and this pathway is auto-personalised.

Irrespective of the pupil’s diagnosis, the assessment unfolds the pupil’s individual Number Sense Developmental Profile based on their unique cognitive profile.

The assessment drives the intervention and delivers:

  • Individualised Number Sense Developmental Profile
  • Individualised Support Plan with IEP’s
  • Scheme of Work signposted to Dynamo Intervention
  • Standardised score and percentile rank
  • auto-personalized intervention pathways based on the assessment outcomes.

Irrespective of the pupil’s diagnosis and prognosis, the assessment unfolds the pupil’s individual Number Sense Developmental Profile based on their unique neurodiverse profile so that the students struggles are identified through their functional and development level  and this provides a realistic understanding of  the specific areas of struggle.

The Number Sense Developmental profile is supported by an Individual Support Plan that pinpoints the small-step areas for number and math development. These areas of development signpost to Dynamo Intervention.

The Class Report provides a quick glance of the entire class or group and gives the teacher a snapshot of the pupils’ assessment status and progress over time.

Standardised Score

A Standard Score converts a pupil’s raw score to a standardised score which takes into account the pupil’s age in years and months and gives an indication of how the pupil is performing relative to the sample population of pupils of the same age.

The percentile rank is a statistical measure representing a specific position within a data set.

1. Standardised Scores with Percentile Rank and Number Sense Developmental Profile
2. Individual Support Plan with a Scheme of Work and Signposts to Dynamo Intervention
3. Assessment Class Summary Report

Dynamo Intervention takes a developmental approach, where the learning of specific skills takes an integrated approach using three pathways: Lesson Plans, Online Activities and Worksheets. Each pathway is structured in small, cumulative steps of number development ensuring consolidation and confidence building before higher numbers are introduced.

Its strength lies in the way it offers multiple engagement routes so that the same skill is learned and consolidated in different ways whilst harnessing the pupil’s senses, emotions, verbal, visual, auditory and kinaesthetic skills.  It provides multiple opportunities to see where the barriers lie so that the learning approach can be continuously shaped by the pupil’s responses.

The multiple pedagogies and the dynamic interaction provides the building blocks of developing the necessary inquiry, language, reflection, investigative, thinking and reasoning skills to secure number sense development.

The use of the Support Tools within this integrated approach of observing the pupil’s engagement within the Triple Pathway ensures that the goal towards mastery is never lost.

Dynamo Intervention is a positive program aimed at shaping and re-positioning areas of delayed number sense development and keeping the pupil on track.

4. Visual Report
5. Pupil’s View of Progress and Performance

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