What is Dyscalculia?
14th March 2006
Definitions of dyscalculia on the Web:
People with this disorder have severe difficulty in understanding and using functions or symbols needed for success in mathematics.
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relates to a difficulty in understanding and coping with quantitative and spatial information, in particular a reduced ability to understand and/or apply core mathematical processes. It can result in a difficulty in handling sequences of information or processing numerical data.
www.skillsforaccess.org.uk/definitions.php
Dyscalculia is a learning difficulty which impacts on a learner’s ability to become proficient in maths.
www.dyslexia-dyspraxia.com/glossary.htm
a form of Specific Learning Disability that involves a delay or inability in learning arithmetic facts and operations, and their meaning.
www.ansr.com/ansrgled.html
Difficulty in understanding or using mathematical symbols or functions. A child with dyscalculia may be able to read and write but have difficulty in performing mathematical calculations.
www.annikeris.com/glossary_d.html
impaired ability to learn grade-appropriate mathematics
http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
Dyscalculia is a specific learning difficulty affecting a person’s ability to understand and/or manipulate numbers. Like dyslexia, dyscalculia can be caused by a visual perceptual deficit. Dyscalculia is often used to refer specifically to the inability to perform operations in maths or arithmetic, but is defined by some educational professionals as a more fundamental inability to conceptualise numbers themselves as an abstract concept of comparative quantities. …
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyscalculia