{"id":8926,"date":"2022-08-30T08:46:34","date_gmt":"2022-08-30T08:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whizz-com.stackstaging.com\/what-is-dyscalculia\/"},"modified":"2022-10-07T08:48:18","modified_gmt":"2022-10-07T08:48:18","slug":"what-is-dyscalculia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whizz.com\/en-us\/blog\/what-is-dyscalculia\/","title":{"rendered":"What is dyscalculia?"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Most people have heard of dyslexia which is a learning difference which primarily affects reading and writing skills. There is an equivalent learning difference which affects mathematics; namely Dyscalculia. Dyscalculia is a specific and persistent difficulty in understanding numbers which can lead to a diverse range of difficulties with mathematics. It will be unexpected in relation to age, level of education and experience and occurs across all ages and abilities. It is thought that at least 5% of people have dyscalculia. In the UK, that is over 3 million people.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Signs of dyscalculia aren\u2019t always easy to spot, and it isn\u2019t the same as math anxiety, but students with dyscalculia often react strongly to activities that involve math and will become upset or frustrated. Students diagnosed with dyscalculia have a specific learning difficulty for mathematics. This is characterised by having difficulty understanding simple number concepts, lacking an intuitive grasp of numbers, and having problems learning number facts and procedures. Even if they produce a correct answer or use a correct method, they may do so mechanically and without confidence. The key to supporting the learning of a student diagnosed with dyscalculia lies in the identification of their strengths. Math-Whizz Tutor <\/a>initial assessment will capture this.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

How Math-Whizz Virtual Tutor Supports Students with Dyscalculia<\/h2>\n

Math-Whizz also fosters independent learning, through the student engaging with the Tutor each week to reach weekly goals, rewards and personal messages. Praise, rewards and encouragement is key to boost confidence and motivation.<\/p>\n

Time in Topic Challenge will help build positive engagement in learning and enables students to revisit areas of mathematical learning frequently to reinforce concepts learned.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ensuring <\/span>Math-Whizz<\/a> is part of the math of students learning on a weekly basis will give them solid support with their math learning. All that is required is around one hour which can be broken down into 15-minute blocks three times a week.<\/span><\/p>\n

To give your child their best chance at success in math, take out a subscription<\/a> for not much more than one latte a week from an international coffee shop.<\/span><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Most people have heard of dyslexia which is a learning difference which primarily affects reading and writing skills. There is an equivalent learning difference which affects mathematics; namely Dyscalculia. Dyscalculia is a specific and persistent difficulty in understanding numbers which can lead to a diverse range of difficulties with mathematics. It will be unexpected in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":7168,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-parents-en-us"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whizz.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whizz.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whizz.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whizz.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whizz.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/whizz.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whizz.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whizz.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whizz.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whizz.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}