[senco-forum] What works best when children are failing? Dyslexia/Math

Sharon
Just a thought on 'visualistion testing' from memory -   Imagine a cube, painted black and suspended from a thread joined to one of its corners. Ask the testee to visualise and then draw the perceived outline.  (The real test comprised about twenty similar visualisation exercises.) 
Those with poor visualisation skills draw a straight line for the thread and then append a kind of diamond shape at the end of the thread to represent the cube. 
A testee with good visualisation skills perceives the outline of the suspended cube was always showing two straight line sides. 
Try drawing it yourself. The correct shape has two upper angled sides, two straight line sides and two bottom angular sides. Alternatively,  get hold of a dice or other cube and hold it up to a light then look at the outline!

Eddie C.