Discovering Dyscalculia

An expert panel discusses the math learning disability called dyscalculia, which affects five percent of children, making it as common as dyslexia.

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Education

Tags:

• dyscalculia
• math
• learning
• disability
• school
• mathematics
• teaching
• challenge

[tvoparents]

Thanks everyone for your responses and sharing your stories. Has anyone found anything that helps ease the anxiety of dyscalculia? Any sources we can share?

[MichaelaLeach]

I feel sooooo relieved!!! I'm not stupid! I've spent years fearing numbers and crying over my math homework. I've always been really good at everything but math. I've had teachers just give up on me, because I just don't understand certain math concepts. I have so many of the symptoms for dyscalculia and all along I just ignored them because I just thought I was bad at math. The one that surprised me was that they are bad at sensing direction, I get lost in my town for crying out loud.

[MrDaleaaaa]

itsshort term memmory you can't rember the number. you keep looking back then when you start to do the prolem then you forgot the number that you wre going to add.and you start over until you get fustrated and do something else

[ColtonXStuehrk]

Thanks you so much!!!!!!!!!



[bensflis]

Thankyou very much for this video. Very informative. Thanks also for some solutions. I could share this with my friends in Fiji Islands.

[jleer1]

I believe I have this disability, and as a result, I failed my maths GCSE, and in order to study in college, they told me I have to redo my maths GCSE. Dispite this, they won't test me for it.

[scout6686]

w/out me you are NOTHING

[scout6686]

I'm sooooo horny

[townkevin59]

I am a 40 year old male, who still doesn't have my GED, despite several attemps, because I don't understand math on any level outside of basic adding and subtracting. I avoid anything regarding math. I was a Professional Landscaper for 12 years and if I ran across a job that required the square footage of a patio install, I would need my supervisor to figure out the math side and I would lay the patio, and I did beautiful work, but I couldn't figure out how many paver blocks I needed.

[americiancomrade]

And I am amazing with art, I also try to shy away from mathematics and lean more to philosophy.*

[americiancomrade]

Let's see it only effects 5 percent of the population, could that be because there is a lack of awareness, I'm sure there are many other individuals who have gone undiagnosed. Yeah I'm terrible in high school algebra but I've had the same class for 2 years. I cant visualize the equations or understand the concept. I'm terrible with patterns and lack the basic skills in mathematics to excel in my work. I'm not inept I'm great in writing, history, science (not including the math portions), and am

[tshenvideos]

As they said, dyscalculia affect only 5 percent of the population, so many of you who claim to be bad at math probably do not have it. Dyscalculia affects the very root, or foundation, of numbers, or quantitative reasoning. If you can add, subtract, multiply, divide, and graph simple equations, then you don't have the disability. If you are dong badly in Algebra 1 in high school, too bad you can't blame it on this condition. That's probably just a neural capacity limit for numbers.