IDL Numeracy

IDL Numeracy is an interactive mathematics resource designed to help children improve their numeracy skills.

The IDL Numeracy software resource contains:

• A wide range of math resources can be used to support learners with dyscalculia, dyslexia, and other difficulties in mathematics.
• A curriculum of interactive math puzzles that are presented as fun and easy.
• Targets

Every lesson is designed to match individual targets and promote an overall understanding of mathematical methods. The program has eleven strands, each individually tracking a pupil’s ability in those principles.

For example, a student might be operating at the level of understanding of a 2nd-grade student when it comes to addition and subtraction but struggle with money problems, working at a 1st-grade level. IDL Numeracy will place them according to these strengths and weaknesses, providing more insightful feedback to teachers and boosting learners where needed.

Numbers and Counting

This strand of reasoning encompasses fundamental concepts, including numerosity, cardinality, and quantity. Pupils learn how to count forwards and backward as well as identify quantities on sight, e.g., counting dots.

Addition and Subtraction

Our program teaches pupils to efficiently and effectively add or subtract quantities in some core math operations. These lessons combine word problems, different representations of values, column methods, and many more variations.

Multiplication and Division

Our strand curriculum guides pupils through formal written and mental methods to multiply and divide. Pupils experiment with grouping, factor pairs, and understanding the importance of commutativity.

Weights and Measures

Our weights and measures strand embeds understanding of negative values in temperature, equivalence in weights, and how real-life problems can be solved using rational methods. Students learn to read thermometers and experience related units of measurement.

Money

The money strand of IDL Numeracy includes problems of a practical context to help build confidence and mental arithmetic skills. Students learn how to calculate total costs and change and use multiple denominations of coins to pay.

Time

From analog to digital clocks, our time lessons show students how to read and solve clock-based problems. The lessons scaffold this knowledge into more complex problems based on duration, deductive reasoning, and conversion of values.

Shapes, Position, and Direction

Orientation, translation, and symmetry are only a few of the skills demonstrated in these lessons. This strand begins with recognizing 2D and 3D shapes and the criteria thereof before moving on to comparing nets, coordinate locations, terminology, and overall spatial reasoning.

Sequences and Patterns

Problems require proportional awareness, sorting from most minor to most significant, and then expanding students’ deductive skills. These lessons include whole values and fractions, promoting numerical and shape pattern recognition.

Statistics, Sorting, and charts

This strand comprehensively covers data organization and charts and reads and compiles them. Students will learn to accurately understand a range of tables and charts, how and why they are used, and more. This strand also encompasses coordinates and plotting points to solve many problems.

In total, there are 2710 lessons!

Although the program includes various lessons, each is built to the IDL methodology to be accessible, engaging, and effective. The principles will always be the same; mathematical problems are presented in a fun and intuitive way. Each problem comes with auditory instructions and additional functions to help find the solution or simplify the puzzle. Each question is solved by moving items around the screen or by clicking on the right items, making it even more accessible to students with a range of difficulties across any platform.