How can cooperative learning be used to address it? Supplement textbook instruction by providing students with opportunities to practice or review skills and concepts; vocabulary and symbolic understanding can be facilitated with peer interactions and modelling; “guided practice” time to engage in tasks to practice introduced skills; providing roles in group work allows students to work with their strengths, while talking to their peers and working through their weaknesses together. http://www.ldonline.org/article/5932

Dyscalculia is a learning disability that causes difficulty in arithmetic and mathematics skills. This includes counting, measuring quantity, working memory for numbers, sequential memory, ability to recognize patterns, time perception, telling time, sense of direction, and mental retrieval of mathematical facts and procedures. 

In general terms, there are many symptoms that could indicate that a student could have the learning disability. The student could show the following: 

·         may appear absent-minded, 

·         tendency to get lost, 

·         lose things, 

·         lose track of time, 

·         easily become disoriented 

·         difficult remember names or associate faces with names. 

·         Unable to recall previous mathematics issues 

·         Younger children may not know that the numeral value 5 is the same as the word “five”. 

·         Trouble with quantity comparison 

(https://www.psychologytoday.com/au/conditions/dyscalculia) 

 (https://www.understood.org/en/learning-attention-issues/child-learning-disabilities/dyscalculia/understanding-dyscalculia) 

High school specifically students may have issues with the following: (symptoms) 

 

·         Struggles to apply math concepts to money, including estimating the total cost, making exact change and figuring out a tip. 

·         Has a hard time grasping information shown on graphs or charts. 

·         Has difficulty measuring things like ingredients in a simple recipe or liquids in a bottle. 

·         Has trouble finding different approaches to the same math problem.

(https://www.understood.org/en/learning-attention-issues/child-learning-disabilities/dyscalculia/understanding-dyscalculia)

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