Dyscalculia

Difficulties in math

​Dyscalculia is a learning condition that makes it challenging to comprehend and understand math. Symptoms range from difficulty counting and performing basic mental math to difficulties identifying time and determining direction.

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Dyscalculia symptoms include:

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• relating a number to the amount it represents (the number 2 to two apples)

• Backward and forward counting contrasting two quantities

• Difficulties recognizing patterns, such as smallest to largest or tallest to shortest

• Inadequate comprehension of the signs +, -, xx, and x may confuse these mathematical symbols.

• May not grasp mathematical jargon or be able to create a strategy to tackle a mathematical problem.

• Understands arithmetic terms such as greater than and less than difficulty.

• Has difficulties calculating the total cost of products and may run out of money

• You should avoid circumstances that need you to grasp numbers, such as playing math games.

• Struggles to learn and understand reasoning methods and multi-step calculation procedures.

• Lacks confidence in activities that require understanding speed, distance and directions. 

• Struggles to find different approaches to the same maths problem, such as adding the length and width of a rectangle to solve for the perimeter.