What are the symptoms of dyscalculia?
Dyscalculic children are likely to be shy in class for fear of providing the wrong answer. They display specific difficulties in the following areas: • Counting: they can usually learn the sequence of counting words, but will have difficulty moving around the sequence, going back or jumping forward in twos or threes • Calculations: learning and recalling facts around numbers will be hard. They will lack the confidence to provide an answer and struggle to learn the basic rules that build facts around numbers • Numbers with zeros: difficulty in seeing the correlation between the words ten, hundred and thousand and the numbers 10, 100 and 1000 • Measures: problems handling money or telling the time, as well as concepts such as temperature and speed • Directions and orientation: left and right can cause difficulties, as well as map reading and following directions How Priory Education Services can help Priory Education Services operates a network of schools and colleges throughout the coun
