Dyscalculia is a math learning disorder that can have genetic, brain development, or environmental causes such as prenatal alcohol exposure or prematurity. Common symptoms include losing things, trouble with mental math, difficulty telling time, and problems with directions or sequencing. Treatment involves special education with a focus on using visual aids, concrete examples, graph paper, math games, drawing pictures, and diagrams to help those with dyscalculia learn.
Dyscalculia is a math learning disorder that can have genetic, brain development, or environmental causes such as prenatal alcohol exposure or prematurity. Common symptoms include losing things, trouble with mental math, difficulty telling time, and problems with directions or sequencing. Treatment involves special education with a focus on using visual aids, concrete examples, graph paper, math games, drawing pictures, and diagrams to help those with dyscalculia learn.
Dyscalculia is a math learning disorder that can have genetic, brain development, or environmental causes such as prenatal alcohol exposure or prematurity. Common symptoms include losing things, trouble with mental math, difficulty telling time, and problems with directions or sequencing. Treatment involves special education with a focus on using visual aids, concrete examples, graph paper, math games, drawing pictures, and diagrams to help those with dyscalculia learn.
Causes Genes and heredity: a child with dyscalculia often has a parent or sibling with similar math issues. Brain development: difference in the surface area, thickness and volume parts of the brain that are linked to learning and memory. Environment: exposure to alcohol in the womb, prematurity and low birth weight. Brain injury: injury to certain parts of the brain results to acquired dyscalculia.
Some common symptoms include:
1.Frequently losing 4.Confusing math symbols things 5.Using fingers to 2.Trouble with mental count things math 3.Difficulty telling time on analog 6.Trouble following clocks sequential directions
7.Difficulty with left
and right directions
Treatment A child diagnosed with dyscalculia should receive special education and there are way that parents can help their child at home:
using visual aids when solving a problem.
using concrete examples that connect math to real life. using graphing papers. playing math related games. draw pictures of word problems. use diagrams and draw math concepts