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Diagnosed Difficulties - Dyscalculia

Dyscalculia (Numeracy)

Dyscalculia is a specific and persistent difficulty in understanding numbers which can lead to a diverse range of difficulties with mathematics; it affects the ability to acquire arithmetical skills. 

Dyscalculic learners may show some or all of the following characteristics:

 

  • Difficulty understanding number concepts

  • Lack an intuitive grasp of numbers

  • Problems with learning number facts and procedures

  • Struggle with computation of numbers

  • Find learning and recalling number facts difficult

Math Formulas

  • Challenges with basic concepts such as 'money' and ‘telling time’

  • May lack confidence even when they produce the correct answer

  • May fail to use rules and procedures (they may know that 5+3=8, but not realise that 3+5=8)

  • May lack an intuitive grasp of number magnitude, so checking calculations is especially difficult

  • May not understand which type of arithmetic operation is required

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