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Developmental Dyscalculia Symptoms
This list is by no means exhaustive and indicates that there is an underlying cause to the disturbance in the pupil’s number sense development:
- High levels of maths anxiety
- Cannot subitise (the ability to recognise groups of 3/4 without formal mathematical processing
- Cannot count reliably
- Does not associate number words with their symbols. For example, they do not associate the word ‘eight’ with the symbol ‘8’
- Reliance on ‘counting-on’ strategies: using fingers rather than mental arithmetic methods
- Writing number digits the wrong way round consistently
- Difficulty with estimating
- Difficulty placing numbers on a number line. For example, cannot identify that the number 8 should go between 5 and 10 on a number line
- Inability to tell which of two numbers is larger
- Cant apply applying + and – signs
- Difficulty working with a pattern
- Confusing signs +, -, x, ÷
- Confusing or not understanding mathematical vocabulary
- Difficulty with times tables and mental arithmetic
- Difficulty with everyday tasks such as checking change
- Difficulty with reading clocks
