Laura Jackson discovered her daughter has dyscalculia after emotional signs revealed deeper math challenges. She partnered with specialists and used focused teaching methods to improve her daughter’s skills and wellbeing. Today her daughter is succeeding in algebra and geometry and is becoming a confident self-advocate.

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A child from a close family is one of those children about whom we say, ‘Maths isn’t his strong point’. His father noticed, when he was about 5 years old, that he didn’t understand the concepts of ‘bigger’ and ‘smaller’ numbers. He somehow managed with addition, albeit by counting on his fingers, but subtraction was a real struggle, and any understanding of the ‘difference’ between two numbers was simply absent. 

At school, when they got to the multiplication table, he learnt it by heart like a poem, but without really understanding it. His parents spoke to his teacher about how he seemed to be guessing the answers rather than grasping the logic and working out the solution himself. 

After a great deal of struggle both at school and at home, his father began searching online to find out why this might be happening, and that’s how he came across the term ‘dyscalculia’. It is often referred to as ‘dyslexia for maths’, because both are neurological differences in the way the brain processes information.

A diagnosis of dyscalculia is made by psychologists and speech and language therapists based on prolonged observation of a combination of the following:

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There’s a story a lot of people tell about themselves that goes like this:

I’m just not a math person. Some people get it and some people don’t, and I’m in the “don’t” category. I’ve always been this way. It’s fine. I manage.

It’s told in a certain tone — part acceptance, part mild embarrassment, part practiced deflection to move the conversation along before anyone presses for details. The details being: how you quietly calculate tips on your phone before the check arrives. How you always “let” someone else split the bill. How you’ve never fully understood your own bank statements. How payday feels like briefly visiting a country where you speak the language and then slowly losing it again.

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