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Poem

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When the numbers start to swim
shimmy inside excel cells
I firmly put them in their place:
make them what I think they are
should be
Then like puddles in the sun they change shape
Inexplicably
7’s now a 4, the 3’s where the 2 should be, 8’s gone astray
an extra nought has sidled in
and I just don’t understand how this can be
yet again
Sweating cold anxiety                                                   
 
It’s like a dance, a game, when the numbers swim:
me against them
Check..check…check again
Done. Happy. Accuracy reached.
Next day: rising horror that the numbers
have broke free
like spies in the night, their appearance now changed
Why don’t they work, like they did yesterday? 
What happened? Was it me? Again?!
Simple Simon strikes three
Another cold sweat

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Dyscalculia by Marta Wiberg

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Do you guys have a learning disability? Example, dyslexia? Well I do, one very close to dyslexia but it has more to do with numbers; dyscalculia. Obviously, I’d ask to not have a learning disability at all, but i’d do anything to trade dyscalculia with dyslexia. Now, that is not because it is easier to live with dyslexia because it is probably not. The reason is because there are more people with dyslexia and it was discovered a lot sooner, and because of that, there are more people who understands it and can actually help with it. There are a lot of ways to deal with people having problems with reading and writing: getting longer time to finish a book or an essay, getting an easier essay question or an easier version of a book. In writing, there are no right or wrong answers, I would know considering the fact that I love writing more than anything but in 1 math problem, there is just one answer and if you go wrong somewhere, the entire answer is wrong. Can you guys imagine how much struggle that is for one person who can hardly even count?

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When 1 + 1 = 5: Dyscalculia and Working Memory

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Jacob’s mother writes that ‘Jacob, 10-years-old, still struggles with number bonds to 10. Learning to tell the time is still slow – he has not mastered half-past. Although he managed to learn his 5x tables because we practiced all summer, this has now gone’.

Jacob has dyscalculia, a math disability where students struggle to learn or understand mathematics. Students with dyscalculia find it difficult to decipher math symbols (e.g. +, -), counting principles (‘two’ stands for 2), solving arithmetic problems, and usually transpose numbers (e.g. 75 becomes 57). However, dyscalculia encompasses more than problems with numbers – there is also a struggle with telling the time as in Jacob’s case, identifying left from right, and recognizing patterns.

But why do some students struggle to learn numbers and certain mathematical principles?

Working Memory plays a key role. To solve a mathematical problem like 1 + 1, we need to use our

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