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Sunday, December 03, 2006

Dyscalculia

Dyscalculia-
# Frequent difficulties with numbers, confusing the signs: +, -, ÷ and x.
# Inability to say which of two numbers is the larger.
# Reliance on 'counting-on' strategies, e.g. using fingers, rather than any more efficient mental arithmetic strategies.
# Difficulty with everyday tasks like checking change and reading analog clocks.
# Inability to comprehend financial planning or budgeting, sometimes even at a basic level, for example, estimating the cost of the items in a shopping basket or balancing a checkbook.
# Difficulty with times-tables, mental arithmetic, etc.
# Does better in subjects such as science and geometry, which require logic rather than formulas, until a higher level requiring calculations is needed.
# Difficulty with conceptualizing time and judging the passing of time.
# Problems differentiating between left and right.
# Having a poor sense of direction (i.e. north, south, east, and west) and may also have trouble still even with a compass.
# Difficulty navigating or mentally "turning" the map to face the current direction rather than the common North=Top usage.
# Having difficulty mentally estimating the measurement of an object or distance (e.g., whether something is 10 or 20 feet away).
# Inability to grasp and remember mathematical concepts, rules, formulae, and sequences.
# Difficulty keeping score during games.
# Difficulty with games such as poker with more flexible rules for scoring.
# Difficulty in activities requiring sequential processing, from the physical (such as dance steps) to the abstract (reading, writing and signalling things in the right order). May have trouble even with a calculator due to difficulties in the process of feeding in variables.
# The condition may lead in extreme cases to a phobia of mathematics and mathematical devices.

Well, mine's a mild case. I read 3 digit numbers weirdly. Haha. The middle is the last, the last as the middle. Kinda easy to correct.

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