Dyscalculia: What it is and what it isn't
The word "dyscalculia" means difficulty performing math calculations. In other words, it just means "math difficulty". And specifically, it means a learning disability which affects math. Sometimes confusion arises when we start dealing with the term "dyscalculia" as it relates to "special education services".
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Dyscalculia: What is dyscalculia?
Dyscalculia is a learning disability involving math skills. According to the Journal of Pediatrics, dyscalculia, which is a lifelong condition, affects about 2% - 6.5% elementary school age children in the United States.
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Dyscalculia: 'From My Point Of View'
ave you ever heard of a learning disability called Dyscalculia (also acalculia)? Well, it's a learning disability that involves math skills. In the simplest of terms, dyscalculia causes people to have an extra hard time understanding and figuring out arithmetic. All those weird symbols, the numbers everywhere, and just WHAT to do with them! Sounds like the perfect excuse, eh? But you can't really use it as an excuse, because it can't be tested.....very reliably. You may have more luck using it to explain why math is so troublesome to you though.
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Dyscalculia: Learning Disabilities OnLine
Learning Disabilities in Mathematics What constitutes a learning disability in mathematics? There is no single mathematics disability.
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Dyscalculia: Three Sub-types
Quantitative dyscalculia, a deficit in the skills of counting and calculating. Qualitative dyscalculia, a result of difficulties in comprehension of instructions or the failure to master the skills required for an operation. When a child has not mastered the memorisation of number facts, he cannot benefit from this stored "verbalisable information about numbers" that is used with prior associations to solve problems involving addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and square roots. Intermediate dyscalculia involves the inability to operate with symbols, or numbers.
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