What Is Dyscalculia? Math Dyslexia?⏲📆
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- čas přidán 21. 07. 2024
- Is your child struggling with math? Ever heard of dyscalculia? Most people haven't. Which is sad because dyscalculia is actually very common. Some people call it math dyslexia. Dyscalculia involves the processing and representing of numbers. That may affect number sense, calculation, mathematical reasoning, and a difficulty with basic math concepts. In this video we'll cover what causes dyscalculia, what dyscalculia is, and what to do about dyscalculia.
You'll learn some of the common symptoms of this specific learning difference and at the end will be given an evaluation option. Dyscalculia has been thought to be a lifelong learning disability but that idea is being challenged as we learn more about neuroplasticity.
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I always joked I had "Numerical dyslexia", but now I know there is an actual name for it. Thank you very much.
Same!
Me too!
Me too and now I’m 71
I didn't know that I was discalculic until I went to college. My mom homeschooled me from birth to graduation, and I spent many hours struggling over math that I couldn't wrap my head around and I was mostly expected to learn it from the books with little or no help from my mom. I was told I was lazy, stupid, the works. I was given extra math as a punishment for being stuborn and not learning math.
When I got to college, my anxiety over math was so bad that I wrote the answers on my first placement quiz backward (in mirrorform). The professor noticed right away and had me take a series of adult dyscalculia and dyslexia assements, and discovered that I was basically in the deep end of the dyscalculia spectrum. The professor told me I was one of the most severely dyscalculic students he'd had, but he also reasured me that I was definitely intelligent enough to pass all my required math classes. It took a lot of work, but he was right!
I am homeschooling my 16 year old who is struggling with geometry. Would you please share what you wished your mother would have done that you think would have helped you? My daughter says she doesn’t want help, yet she is very behind in math. I would appreciate your advice from a child/student’s perspective.
@@Rita-uy1uf One of the biggest helps is being able to take the pressure off yourself and know that you can do it, it just may take longer to get it done. My mom put constant pressure on me, as if my life and happiness depended on knowing how to calculate square roots in my head. I'm not accusing you of putting too much pressure on your daughter, but I do remember that most of my mom's rare "helping" was usually more distracting and confusing than anything.
Remember that most of what she's learning now won't have an application in daily life unless she goes after a math-heavy career, so don't stress if she forgets right after the test. And she will have a calculator in her pocket most of the time, contrary to what our parents used to tell us, lol!
That said, If she's determined to figure it out on her own, give her access to as many resources as possible. One of the greatest helps for me in college was getting on CZcams and watching how other people solved similar problems one step at a time. I'm a visual learner and thinker, so seeing someone write out the problem and solve it helped give me a visual model to follow. And look for different ways to solve the problem if it's something that doesn't require specific steps; one method may stick better than another. It also helped to try and find out as many practical applications for the problem as I can. Ie. this is something that a quilter would use to determine the amount of batting needed for a quilt, or physicists use this equation to measure the distance between stars.
Math with no purpose feels like a punishment to me.
Sorry for the long reply! I really hope that this helps a little. Again, the biggest factor to me is decreasing the stress and constantly reassuring her that you believe she's smart enough to figure out how her brain can conquer this.
I've struggled all my life...when it comes to words, I can read and comprehend anything. But when it comes to numbers, I can barely function. It also affects me in other ways; I can't play chess, type, or drive a clutch car. I never heard a name attached to it...
Now I know there's a name for it. When I was in school (41 years ago) I'd always spend summer vacation in the classroom "repeating" a math class. The only time I can enjoy my summer vacation was if I got a "passing" grade on my report card.
When I was in my senior year of high school one my teachers told me I will "never" amount to anything.
Makes me feel like I'm "retarded". My parents didn't help much. My mom saying to me that I'm not studying hard enough.
I would end up having fights with her. Too bad the internet & youtube were not around in the 70's & 80s. Had it been around back then, I would have been able to explain to my mom that I have a math learning disability.
Always struggled with maths, algebra in particular. However I managed to get through my field of science degree which required a 100% pass rate in maths because it was practiced all the time. To this day, I struggle with copying strings of numbers such as phone numbers or bank accounts. I'm aware of this and have to check several times, but still get the sequence wrong occasionally.
What has worked for me is grouping numbers. Example: 7617801807 I will repeat 761-780-1807 basically separating them in a way. Just wanted to share what has helped me.
I have dyscalculia and dyslexia. My parents got me Hooked on Phonics back in the early 90's and it helped with my reading, but they didn't know the root problem was dyslexia. But my math skills did not receive the same attention. I really thought, for YEARS, that I was too stupid to learn math more complicated than basic math. I had TERRIBLE anxiety concerning math. I still struggle with it, but not as much as I used to thanks to an amazing math tutor in college when I went back in my early 30's. He has an amazing gift for being able to teach math to anyone, no matter their learning style. He was incredibly patient with me and through his tutolidge I honed a math intuition I didn't know I had and realized that I actually COULD learn. And that realization helped my self esteem AND my sense of self worth.
I have both. I think dyscalculia is so unknown compared to dyslexia because, for the average person, reading is taught to be always useful and easily fun, and math is taught to be insufferable and only useful in some vague far-off future. Struggling with math is far more generally relatable than struggling with reading, so dyslexia is seen as much more of a "problem" where as dyscalculia is misinterpreted as just a part of the almost universal struggle with math.
I talk with people all the time about dyscalculia and almost every one says they're bad at math too. The thing is, I'm can't really say I'm "bad" at math, surviving nearly 4 years of engineering classes proves it, but I am essentially incapable of mental math and I have to be very careful to make sure I haven't swapped around numbers (like writing a step or variable in as 21 when I thought I wrote 12.) I'm an expert at double checking myself through each step, which is probably why I'm slow at it but manage to still be very decent at math despite the dyscalculia. Other may struggle with memorization or operations and still relate to math being something they had to work a lot harder on. When they relate to you, because they don't think of their own struggles as a learning disability, they assume your struggles are run of the mill too.
I think most kids wouldn't struggle so much if we actually showed them how useful and awesome math really is in an age appropriate way, no more endless problems about trains and impossible amounts of watermelons.
I barely survived high school physics and chemistry. I was amazed when I got the third best grade out of almost a hundred pre-med students. I think the difference was using a four-function calculator rather then a slide rule. I also scramble letters spatially.
The only advice I ever got was to "memorize memorize memorize", Which was a waste.
I remember the intense math homework sessions with my mom. She’d get so angry with me because I loved to read and was apparently at a higher level and thought that I was just being lazy with math (especially with those confusing scenario problems). It’s just genuinely more difficult for me,, if I can find a real world application it’s a bit easier even though I still have to take a lot of time. I still have no idea what a person means when they say “(x) of sq ft”, I know what the words mean but I gotta be there in person, I can’t just assume how big the space is 😂
Ooof painful to fully understand what troubles I had as a kid. I was told I had dyscalculia but never told how to manage it 😢
Now as an adult I'm trying to manage it... but goddamit it's difficult to do some things...
It truly is. We understand the challenge
I've joked i have number dyslexia for years and it turns out there's an actual name for this. Hunh. Thanks.
Yep
I'm 47 and still add and subtract using my fingers. Can't do it without my fingers. That's the extent of my math skills.
For me it was so hard and still is to make a difference between repeating numbers like: 755 and 775 getting constantly confused and having trouble to remember which one I just heard/read.
It doesnt exactly help that I work on a daily basis with 20 digits numbers from cartons/tote labels
I can tell someone how to do algebra, but I can't do it myself. After I got married and was doing math to try to get into nursing school and kept getting the wrong answers. My husband looked at what I was doing to try to find out why I wasn't getting the answer correct and he noticed that I was switching the numbers around.
Now when I have to copy a number from one place to another I use a piece of paper and show one number at a time until I have the complete number.
I was homeschooled and struggled with math. Dad would get so frustrated with me and start yelling after just a few minutes of trying to drill math into my head. Apparently, I was just "sloppy," so if I'd just smarten up, I'd get it right. Took me ages to learn to read a regular clock, and memorize the multiplication tables.
Thank You
You're welcome
4 times i sat my basic maths exam and 4 times i failed. i tried so hard but the numbers would jump and move in front of my eyes, but no one believed me. i was about 32 when i was told i was dyslexic and probably had dyscalcula 😢
I am 66 and remember being the very bottom of the class in maths but at the top in all other subjects and completely divided between worst and best in geography depending on the math or non math content. Also history dates.
One day, in 2nd year high, the teacher gave us all a "FUN!" advanced maths (don't know the type) problem at the end of the day. I finished early with the depressing thought that I am obviously once again doing something wrong. When time was up some still had not finished and the dux of the class had the high score of 80. I had the highest score of 100! The teacher couldn't believe it, which he kept saying over and over again. Also saying " You of ALL people." " You didn't cheat! There was no one to copy from......how did you do it?....Impossible!!"
Me to self..." Yeah thanks Mr. Mitchell obviously I have NEVER cheated or copied before, you're not only raining on my parade, you're tearing up my reputation as well!"
The problem was to do with using compasses and drawing arcs that crossed each other at different points.
Just following written instructions and moving the compass to the right point.
It was enjoyable and I flew through it.
I would really like to know the name of this specific type of maths problem if anyone can help.
Yeah as someone who pretty much had to drop out of high school because of 3 undiagnosed LDs (Dyslexia , dyscalculia and NVLD) and 2 undiagnosed Neurodevelopmental disabilities... I know teachers arent paid enough. But the system needs to be better for catching LDs... I was even held back in 2nd grade...
But of course I was "just lazy" 🙄
I wasnt diagnosed until my mid 20s. And I finally... Finally, when I got thst diagnosis. Finally... Didnt feel like a cimplete lazy failure.
Hold up 5 fingers on one hand. 2 on the other and that to my brain = 57. I'm now almost 70. Any hope for me? I can't sequence steps. Can't even locate a library book- grrrrr
Was clinically diagnosed w dyscalculia when I was 32.
I seriously considered ending my life when I left the clinic.
I was a beautiful natural blonde trophy winning bodybuilder and truly a DUMB BLONDE. Had no brains for a REAL JOB so I survived on my beauty and physique by being a stripper.
My older sister was a Gifted Child in school.
My younger brother was teaching himself QUANTUM PHYSICS in his 40's.
I WANT TO BE SMART TOO!!!!
I memorize the genre to get through a library. As I have only the spacial memorization. Guessing it as either. There is or is not? If so, I can go there, but ask the exact dimensions. I can only give small, large, or average. Great memory, but anything with quantities is beyond difficult.
Nice
It’s stupid, but I still feel dumb even if I have this.
Ah, yes. I lost out on my college degree because of a mandatory math class. I was great at every other class except for the math.
I actually went to the learning center director and told them that mandatory math for a degree where it’s not needed is discriminatory towards people with math disabilities and that they should be allowed to take an alternative to math. I believe my school decided to allow student’s to take math theory instead as long as the degree didn’t require standard mathematics in the field.
I actually brought up that situation as a reason to allow an alternative because many people with Dyscalculia will pass everything else and lose out on a degree because of 3 credits they couldn’t pass due to a disability.
No one believes me when I tell them my head switches or flips numbers. I am actually good at math when I see the correct numerals lol
Hey I'm from south africa and went to a day hospital where we get free service for poor communities and I went so I could be diagnosed and had a student doctor tell me there is no such thing as dyscalculia
I asked have she heard about me and she said she has never heard about it so I don't understand how she could so quickly say it doesn't exist
And knowing that I'm not good at talking I probably explained it wrongly to her but did tell her I heard it is under researched
What do I do?
Send her this video
What about only algebra?
YES FINALLY
i have both
I'm in 8 grade I'm having problem in math even when I'm in elementary
Show your parents this video
Your reply made no sense grammatically. You can't be in 8th grade and elementary school at the same time.
Did you catch that mistake after you sent your reply ? Just wondered if you did...
@@lynnodonnell4764 did you consider that they could be dyslexic as well, or that English could be their second language? This comment was entirely unnecessary.
EDIT: additionally, there are some schools that teach grades K-8 without separating middle and elementary groups into different facilities.
@@VannahSavage guess being a Boomer our schools were strictly k-6, 7-9, 10-12. English and grammar was very strict when I was growing up.
I had a boyfriend in high school who had never seen a Black person in real life until he moved to my town when going into 11th grade. And English was the ONLY spoken language I ever heard growing up. Only language ever spoken in all the schools I attended, including college. French and German were the 2 electives.
Time has marched right along and there has been tremendous changes. It can feel pretty unsettling and overwhelming.
No such term as 'learning disabilities' existed when I was growing up. Step dad referred to me as Moron, Imbecile and Ignoramas.
I got high grades in most my classes except math . Diagnosed w Dyscalculia when I was 32.
So I'm sorry if I offended anyone. Not much leeway given to mistakes with Babyboomers in school. Or at our homes for many of us.
I've always welcomed others correcting my grammar or pronunciations so I may articulate my thoughts better. I have never been offended by it. Life's a classroom. At 70 I'm still a willing and eager student.
Still... A thousand Apologies-
What is the opposite of this??? Math and science, and everything is super easy, reading, and writing…. It’s not like it’s extremely hard, but something keeps making it harder than it should be…… When you read a novel and you can read a whole paragraph make it 100 word paragraph and you can read it quite easily…. But then once it’s done you retain absolutely zero.000 Absolutely nothing what it said you have to reread it two or three times it’s like flashcards you can say the word through the whole damn paragraph faster than anybody you know what the word is you can say it, but knowing what the whole sentence with the whole paragraph is saying you have to read two or three times to understand what’s going on what is that? What kind of dyslexia is that, nobody ever talks about this. This is what I have. I don’t feel like I have a reading problem. I can read the sentence. I can read the words but I have to reread them several times before I know what it’s saying is this because I learned how math works and how absolute it isquickly and then trying to read language?
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Why doesnt this program cover adults too? Failed in this respect. Adults get this too.
It does
Now I know there's a name for it. When I was in school (41 years ago) I'd always spend summer vacation in the classroom "repeating" a math class. The only time I can enjoy my summer vacation was if I got a "passing" grade on my report card.
When I was in my senior year of high school one my teachers told me I will "never" amount to anything.
Makes me feel like I'm "retarded". My parents didn't help much. My mom saying to me that I'm not studying hard enough.
I would end up having fights with her. Too bad the internet & youtube was not around in the 70's & 80s. Had it been around back then, I would have been able to explain to my mom that I have a math learning disability.