Early intervention and tutoring helped this student with dyscalculia

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For Tessa Marshall, those things that often come easy to kids—numbers, colors, shapes, tying their shoes—were always a challenge. In 3rd grade, she was diagnosed with dyscalculia and transferred to a Montessori school where the opportunity to learn individually with a teacher, and in a group of students in 1st through 3rd grades, helped her catch up. Now a freshman in high school, she continues to receive math tutoring twice a week, from Dr Schreuder, for her honors geometry class. Here, she discusses what she wishes teachers knew not only about dyscalculia, but also about teaching students with the learning disability.

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