Signs of dyscalculia

If you have a hard time with numbers, you’re not alone. Know the signs of dyscalculia! 🔍🔢

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[sarahleigh]

I’m so dumb at maths im year 6 at school and I still don’t know how to divide by 2 digit numbers I skip out lines when I read and read the same lines I still use my fingers and can’t keep track of where I am in a paragraph and can’t remember basic things and can’t tell the time

[cottagecore]

I was taking an adhd assessment- with like an actual psychologist- bc I knew I had it my whole life but I needed the results for school adjustment and meds- I found out I not only had adhd BUT also dyscalculia😭

[Taro_Tea]

I genuinely got stuck on 5x5 yesterday. It took me 7 minutes to figure it out. I’m in 7th grade 😭

[rachellopez]

Omg, it took me 5 years to learn how to add, subtract, multply and divide fractions. Im so stupid at math

[youknowthedrill]

also makes drawing hard because angles are warped

[LL.]

i have dyscalculia and i can’t count past 20 without pausing and thinking. AND i can’t count AT ALL past 100. multiplication, division, and subtraction aren’t even something that registers in my mind for 1 second.

[arcturiansangels]

I did an online self-assessment with ADDitude and scored 45 out of 50 for Discalculi! Now i need to get the Additional support in my maths class which is proving to be a nightmare

[stephaniechoo]

At Year 4, I can't even think how to divide.

[futurethewolf]

I must have severe dyscalculia lol..
*Cries inside*

[_little_explorers]

I’m not diagnosed with but when we were doing are maths test which was 3x tables I still had to count with my fingers and if I got distracted I had to start again but what didn’t help was that the teacher read it so fast I only got 13 because half of them were not done

[EmbersX]

I count on fingers sometimes, but that's when I have been doing math for some time and my brain tires out. I have a low brain ram, but can figure out math enough not to worry about dyscalculia.

[Aradhya-San]

me being a 7th grader and still uses the finger counting trick and only know the table of 14:

[ThomasItsThomas]

I have dyscalculia but the anolog clock took 4 grades for me to learn(im in the 4th grade), finger counting is Usual by me.

[abhiswarakumbhare]

Relying on calculations? What does that mean?

[ACE-efe]

I THINK i MIGHT have dyscalculia but I am still researching