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Educating Children with DyscalculiaDyscalculia or math disability is a specific learning disability involving innate difficulty in learning or comprehending mathematics (often called Calculexia). It is a lesser known disability, similar and potentially related to dyslexia.
This learning disability can be detected at a young age and measures can be taken to ease the problems faced by younger students. In the same way dyslexia can be dealt with by using a slightly different approach to teaching, so can dyscalculia, however, because it is the lesser known of these learning disorders, it is often not recognized. Potential symptoms include: 1. Frequent difficulties with arithmetic, confusing the signs: +, −, ÷ and ×. 2. Difficulty with everyday tasks like checking change and reading analog clocks. 3. Inability to comprehend financial planning or budgeting, sometimes even at a basic level; for example, estimating the cost of the items in a shopping basket or balancing a checkbook. 4. Difficulty with multiplication-tables, subtraction-tables, addition tables, division tables, mental arithmetic, etc. 5. May do fairly well in subjects such as science and geometry, which require logic rather than formulas, until a higher level requiring calculations is obtained. 6. Difficulty with conceptualizing time and judging the passing of time. 7. Particularly problems with differentiating between left and right. 8. Difficulty navigating or mentally "turning" the map to face the current direction rather than the common North=Top usage. 9. Having particular difficulty estimating the measurement of an object or distance, i.e. estimating whether something is 5 or 10 feet away. 10. Often unable to grasp and remember mathematical concepts, rules, formulas, and sequences. 11. An inability to read a sequence of numbers, or transposing them when repeated, such as turning 47 into 74. 12. Difficulty keeping score during games. 13. Difficulty with games such as poker with more flexible rules for scoring. 14. May have trouble even with a calculator due to difficulties in the process of feeding in variables. 15. The condition may lead in extreme cases to a phobia or durable anxiety of mathematics and mathematic-numeric devices/coherences. • LD ONLINE - Math-related learning disabilities are complex and require intervention by skillful teachers to help students achieve success. We’ve gathered informative resources here for both parents and educators regarding learning disabilities in the area of mathematics. • LABNEWS.CO.UK - Scientists think they have found the area of the brain that goes wrong in people with dyscalculia – a condition that renders them unable to perform arithmetic. • DYSCALCULIA FORUM - In this forum you can find information, facts, hundreds of articles and much more. The forum is free to join. • K12 ACADEMICS - This learning disability affects people across the whole IQ range, but means they have problems with mathematics, time, measurement, etc. The disability is not rare and many of those who have Dyslexia or Dyspraxia also have the disability. There is some evidence to indicate it may be hereditary.
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