“Your child doesn’t have to live with dyscalculia.”
Dyscalculia has only recently become something that people are aware of. Basically it’s like dyslexia but only for math. Many adults have gone through their entire lives not realizing they had it. Formerly it was just called “bad at math”.
Today most people are aware of it, that it relates to problems doing math. But this syndrome involves so much more than simple math inefficiencies. Dyslexia is so common that everybody knows what it is, so reading and writing problems seem to get all of the attention. But what about math problems? Is it just due to math anxiety, or is there a real underlying problem?
Symptoms
Dyscalculia is a term which means “specific learning disability in mathematics.” Following is a list of symptoms of dyscalculia:
- Poor mental math abilities
- Inconsistencies with basic computation of addition, multiplication, division, and subtraction
- Difficulty with understanding money and credit concepts
- Failure to understand how small steps add up
- Devising of number additions, substitutions, transpositions, and reversals (this is similar to the dyslexia that we are all familiar with except that dyscalculia is about numbers)
- Near-total unawareness of mistakes
- High proficiency with book work but failure of math tests
- Above-average abilities in reading, writing, and other subjects, but seeming inability to understand mathematical concepts
The Sheng Chi Foundation has helped many kids with Dyscalculia. Our programs are highly beneficial for dyscalculics.