Dyscalculia from Pondering the Classroom

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When I teach Managerial Accounting, I emphasize to students that in many areas of business it is necessary to read numbers and understand the patterns that are present.   I have always wondered why some very smart students who study are unable to do either one.   Perhaps it is due to dyscalculia.

Two fundamental skills underlie almost everything I do in the course:

  1. Starting with the average cost for some amount of units and then calculating the resulting total cost, and vice versa.
  2. Identifying the pattern inherent in a sequence of numbers and calculating what would come next, or what came before.

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