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Find out why people have trouble with math. Learn about dyscalculia and math learning disabilities. Get math teaching strategies and tips for math homework.
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Math anxiety, dyscalculia, and other reasons math can be hard for kids
Why is math so hard for some kids? And what can we do about it? Find out from a special education and math teacher.
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- A day in the life of a teen with dyscalculia
- 8 things I wish people knew about parenting a child with dyscalculia
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- 7 surprising ways dyscalculia affects me
- 10 surprising ways dyscalculia impacts kids
- 5 self-advocacy sentence starters for middle-schoolers with dyscalculia
- 5 self-advocacy sentence starters for grade-schoolers with dyscalculia
- 5 tips to help grade-schoolers with dyscalculia learn multiplication
- Classroom accommodations for dyscalculia
- 4 ways dyscalculia can affect social skills
- Dyscalculia or math anxiety? Compare the signs in kids
- Treatment for kids with dyscalculia
- Types of tests for dyscalculia
- What is dyscalculia?
- Signs of dyscalculia at different ages
- 7 common myths about dyscalculia
- Video: Teen with dyscalculia shares why she tells friends about her learning issues
- 10 multisensory techniques for teaching math
- What is visual-spatial processing?
- Teacher tip: A cool warm-up game to prime your child for math homework
- Why do some kids have trouble counting?
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- 6 books to help young kids build math skills
- Learning and thinking differences that cause trouble with math
- 6 summer learning apps and games for tweens and teens
- Where to find free assistive technology tools for reading, writing, and math
- 10 terms to know if your child struggles with math
- What is a specific mathematics disability?
- What is number dyslexia?
- Dyscalculia in preschool: 4 signs you might see
- Dyscalculia in grade school: 4 signs you might see
- Dyscalculia in high school: 4 signs you might see
- How games can help kids get better at math
- Math class… the perfect time to write a novel
- Math trouble: Conversation starters to use with your child’s teacher
- 5 ways executive function challenges can impact math
- Questions to ask about the school’s math instruction
- What you need to know about school math instruction programs
- When a child has dyslexia and dyscalculia, treat the math challenges separately
- How I got over my fear of AP statistics (and passed!)
- What “I’m not a math person” means to me
- FAQs about specialized math instruction in grade school
- Teacher tip: Use an anchor chart to help with multiplication
- What is number sense?
- What is math anxiety?
- Understanding dyscalculia in your child
- Working with money and coins: Why some kids struggle with it
- When do kids learn addition and subtraction?
- When do kids learn multiplication and division?
- When do kids learn fractions?
- Why some kids don’t like keeping score in games and sports
- 7 board games to help younger kids build math skills
- 7 math tools for grade-schoolers you can find at home
- Video: Are boys better at math than girls?
- Dyscalculia: Questions from families answered
- How to help kids with tricky math homework
- Download: Graphic organizers to help kids with math
- Why do some kids write numbers backwards?
- Fourth-grade math: Why it’s hard for kids
- Video: A college student with dyscalculia shares her story
- Video: Dyscalculia, dyslexia, and genetics
- Why some kids struggle with math word problems
- Video: A grandmother on raising her grandchild with dyscalculia
- Assistive technology for math
- How software and apps can help with math challenges
- Video: Why is dyslexia diagnosed more often than dyscalculia?
- Video: What dyscalculia means
- Why kids have trouble understanding math symbols
- Second-grade math: Why it’s hard for kids
- Why kids struggle with estimating quantities
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