Dyscalculia in Math Curriculums: A Hidden Need

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Unpopular opinion in edtech and education: People who love math, teach math. People who love to teach math or who love math, write math curriculums. They see education from their mathematical perspective. It makes sense. They love math, it is their passion, they see a need and fill the void as they see best. There is a thought amongst math innovators and curriculums that math is natural, that math is logical, that math is inherent and therefore it is for everyone and everyone has a part of their brain that is mathematical. Here’s the big problem: there is a percentage of the population where this is not true. There are people in the world who do not see the patterns, for whom math is a jumbled mess of gobblygook, for whom the portions of the brain that understands math is a mess of neurons. There are people who do not have an intrinsic number sense, who do not have an ingrained sense of time or who cannot understand where they are in a map or in the world. These people have a disorder called Dyscalculia.

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