Dyscalculia: Not a Cool Math Concept
Design by James Wang
The other day I got an email from a parent who said her child had been diagnosed with dyscalculia. I had to look up what she meant. According to Wikipedia, “Dyscalculia (or math disability) is a specific learning disability involving innate difficulty in learning or comprehending simple mathematics. It is akin to dyslexia and includes difficulty in understanding numbers, learning how to manipulate numbers, learning math facts, and a number of other related symptoms (although there is no exact form of the disability).”
I’m not a doctor or a psychologist, but I take umbrage at labels placed on our children.
Later in the Wikipedia article are listed other symptoms of dyscalculia, which made me start thinking that perhaps I was afflicted with this disease. Here are some of the symptoms: § Read the rest of this entry…
