MAKING MATH ACCESSIBLE TO STUDENTS WITH MATH LEARNING DISABILITY

UNDERSTANDING DYSCALCULIA: Sequential memory is very limited and working math memory is too short to hold complex chunks of information and instructions. Most cannot even keep track when counting 100 pennies. Most cannot count by 3 beyond 12 without manually adding 3 to each increment. Because they cannot consistently recall addition, subtraction, multiplication and division facts, even simple tasks become complex efforts of manual calculation. This is why it is mandatory that Math LD students master the use of a calculator appropriate to their academic level.

Since math LD students suffer with directional disorientation, they get extremely disoriented when

doing operations like long division, multiplication, fractions and equations because of all of the computational directions involved.