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So Dyscalculia really has little or nothing to do with IQ

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One of the ways people would go about finding out if a child has dyscalculia, is by looking at the IQ and then confirming that math skills are much lower as would be predicted by the general IQ. This discrepancy would indicate the presence of dyscalculia. Now however a study done earlier this year, also looked at children with lower or average IQ and found that number sense can be equally affected, independent from the IQ.

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Probability comes natural apparently but how is that with dyscalculia?

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Some interesting recent research shows that even without formal education, people are quite adept at estimating chances. Not when talking about plane crashes or the eventuality of winning the lottery but picking colorful chips from a jar. Read the article for some amazing results. Kids with dyscalculia will typically not have this ability so when we test them early we can prevent a lot of negativity later in school life.

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Fish and Dyscalculia

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The neural circuitry responsible for numerical abilities in the fish brain is unknown. Gerlai and Butterworth say they’d like to take advantage of zebrafish’s known genome and well-characterized anatomy to learn more about how numerosity—the value of a set—is computed. Butterworth says they want to identify the genes responsible for constructing the neural mechanisms. Such information might help uncover the basis of human dyscalculia—learning disabilities in math. “Can we identify this gene or these genes in order to tell which individuals are going to have problems doing this task?” asks Butterworth. “We might be able to get to the bottom of it by looking for genes in other species.”

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