Looking for math suggestions for 13yo with dyslexia

[seastar]

My niece is moderately gifted with dyslexia. Her confidence has been totally shot due to her reading difficulties. As she has strong math skills, I am hoping to find an engaging online math programme that she could use to afterschool math. I am using Dreambox with my 5yo but I don't know if it would be suitable for a 13yo. Any other suggestions? 

[Pegs]

There's a teensy bit of reading and interpreting required for AoPS' online program Alcumus, but no more than one might find on any interesting math test.

 

A gifted 13 yo looking for engaging online math could really get a lot out of this program, IMO. She could start at pre - algebra.

[Kate989]

It's so kind of you to think of your niece and her unique learning needs.  I can relate to your desire to help her with her confidence and find a platform that would allow her to utilize her natural aptitude.  My brilliant 10 yo is very globally dyslexic, so her disability affects both letters and numbers.  For her, dyslexia is very much not just about reading - she reads at a high school level - but ask her to spell, or copy a set of numbers onto another page, or do a busy worksheet of math computations, or negotiate a crowded room... not so much. 

 

While her cognitive aptitude for math is high, she finds actual math work very anxiety-provoking.  Reading is done in a context, so there are clues about meaning. But numbers just float around and if you mix them up, there's no way to know you're on the wrong track.  She also finds computer work very difficult.  I think this is in part because she perceives the zillions of colors that compose pixelated screens very differently than a neurotypical person, so she finds computers disorienting.  In addition, dyslexic kids are generally taught lots of paper-based compensation skills, but aren't given a lot of strategies for working with computers.

 

All of which is to say, these kids are all different and it's hard for someone who doesn't know your niece really well to offer suggestions about what might work for her.  Would your niece be comfortable with a conversation about how/whether her disability affects her ability to work with numbers - practically, not conceptually - and how she feels about computer work?  What would her ideal math program be like if she designed it?  Various adults, including me, have often made the mistake of offering "help" to my kiddo without really understanding how it would play out in her weird, awesome little brain, and that has lead to her feeling isolated and misunderstood.