The Hidden Struggle:
Why Place Value Trips Up So Many Students (Learn 3 Ways to Help)
🔒 Unlock practical tools rooted in research to help your neurodiverse learners thrive in math.
🔍 What You’ll Learn
Understanding place value is the cornerstone of math success, yet many students with learning differences struggle to master it. This webinar explores how classroom teachers, special education teams and parents can support the development of place value understanding using evidence-based strategies. From hands-on tools like craft sticks and base-10 blocks to instructional practices that reduce cognitive load, you’ll discover practical ways to make numbers meaningful for every learner—including those with dyslexia, dyscalculia, ADHD, or autism.
✅ By attending, you’ll learn:
How learning differences impact math
- Dyslexia, dyscalculia, ADHD, and autism affect place value and math development in unique ways.
- Why students may struggle despite adequate instruction.
Research-based strategies to use right away
- Multisensory methods (CRA: concrete–representational–abstract).
- Explicit vocabulary instruction and schema-based word problem solving.
- Hands-on manipulatives (craft sticks, clay, tally races, base-10 blocks).
- Effective tools and activities to support the retention of representing, expanding, sequencing, comparing and rounding numbers.
Whether you’re a classroom teacher, homeschool parent, or support staff, this webinar is designed to give you practical tools you can use immediately—no extra curriculum required.
🎁 Live attendees will also be entered into a giveaway, and all registrants will receive access to the replay.
🤔WHO IS THIS WEBINAR FOR?
🧩Math Teachers and Interventionists
Your school has chosen a curriculum—but it doesn’t quite fit your Tier 3 students. We’ll show you how to adjust instruction using research-informed methods that actually work for students who learn differently.
📚Special Education
You know that writing IEPs is just the beginning. You want your students to meet those goals—and we’ll share how to do that with targeted, research-informed math strategies and interventions.
🏡Parents
You want to move at your child’s pace, not a textbook’s. In this webinar, you’ll gain tools and confidence to teach math in a way that makes sense for your learner’s unique brain—no curriculum script required.
25 Min Sessions
MFM Basic
3 x 25 min
sessions per week
Features Included:
✔ Manipulatives
✔ Ongoing informal assessment
✔ Weekly progress reports
Great for:
✔ 9-11 years old
✔ Students functioning at or below 3rd grade
✔ Students needing help with math facts, place value, and basic operations
$810 per month
MFM Boost
4 x 25 min
sessions per week
Features Included:
✔ Manipulatives
✔ Ongoing informal assessment
✔ Weekly progress reports
Great for:
✔ 9-11 years old
✔ Students functioning at or below 3rd grade
✔ Students needing help with math facts, place value, and basic operations
✔ Students with high support needs or families who want to boost student achievement
$900 per month
55 Min Sessions
MFM Basic
2 x 55 min
sessions per week
Features Included:
✔ Manipulatives
✔ Ongoing informal assessment
✔ Weekly progress reports
Great for:
✔ 12-15 years old
✔ Students working on more complex topics like fractions or pre-algebra
$885 per month
MFM Boost
4 x 55 min
sessions per week
Features Included:
✔ Manipulatives
✔ Ongoing informal assessment
✔ Weekly progress reports
Great for:
✔ 12-15 years old
✔ Students working on more complex topics like fractions or pre-algebra
✔ Students with high support needs or families who want to boost student achievement
$1,245 per month
🔒 Unlock practical tools rooted in research to help your neurodiverse learners thrive in math.
🎉Win from previous webinar:
After the webinar, Dannielle practiced what we had taught on the live call, asked her child’s teacher to adjust the language of the test to be dyslexia friendly, and BOOM…Her daughter’s test retake moved from 63% to 100%
🎯By the End You’ll Know:
What research says about effective math instruction and how to build a math toolkit that actually works for students who learn differently
How the CRA method (Concrete–Representational–Abstract) works and integrates across all three levels
Ways learning differences affect place value understanding and how to navigate them
Research-informed practices to support working memory, retention, and fluency
Meet Your Host
Heather Brand
Meet Heather
>Heather Brand, the Operations Manager at Made for Math, has over 15 years of experience in education, beginning her career in the classroom and tutoring prior to that.
Early on, she noticed that about a fifth of her students didn’t respond as expected to traditional school curriculums, a pattern she observed even when transitioning to teaching in gifted education—including with her own child.
This discovery sparked her passion for understanding dyslexia, neurodiversity, and the science of reading. Heather became a trained reading interventionist through Neuhaus and achieved remarkable success in helping students overcome reading challenges.
Motivated to find a similar approach for math, she discovered Made for Math and became a trained practitioner in Marilyn Zecher’s Multisensory Math. Heather’s expertise and dedication continue to transform the learning experiences of neurodiverse students.
Proof Systematic and Direct Math Works!
My daughter's attitude regarding math and her overall understanding. We rarely have tears as she has built confidence in many areas to which she can rest on when she is being challenged in new areas. She feels like she CAN learn math.
Having a 2E child who can mentally do math in his head, but not on paper I had no idea where to turn for help. Adrianne has been a wealth of knowledge in helping me understand my childs brain and the way he thinks in order to help him feel successful in ways that the school system had him feel like a failure.
Thank you Adrianne for following your passion! Moms like me are so grateful that you went outside the box and created a program unlike any out there for our amazing unique kids to thrive and find their innner power!
Grant has more self confidence and more patience in learning new concepts. He doesn't stress about math homework anymore and is starting to enjoy it again.
