[Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]
Severe learning disabilities in math, affecting up to 7 percent of all students, have been described as the mathematics version of dyslexia, the reading disorder in which people have trouble understanding or interpreting letters, words and symbols.
The math disorder — dyscalculia — has long been overlooked in the public schools, where the focus traditionally has been reading. Proof is the fact that few people have even heard the word that’s pronounced as dis-kal-cue-LI-a in the United States and dis-kal-CUE-lia in England and among some domestic researchers.
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