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Chapter One
Dyscalculia, Dyslexia
and Mathematics
Introduction
In 1981, when we moved from working in mainstream schools and began
teaching in schools for dyslexic learners, our initial expectation was that
teaching mathematics would be much the same as before. At that time, we
could not find any source of guidance to confirm or contradict this expectation.
We thought dyslexia meant difficulties with languages, not mathematics.
Experience would change this impression!
Over the last 25 years, we have accumulated experience, tried out new
(and old) ideas, researched, read what little appropriate material was available
(there is still far less published on learning difficulties in mathematics than
on languages), learned from our learners and have become convinced that
difficulties in mathematics go hand in hand with difficulties in language and
that a different teaching attitude and approach is needed.
The first four chapters of this book look at some of the background that
influenced the evolution of these teaching methods and continues to underpin
their ongoing evolu ... read full excerpt from Mathematics for Dyslexics: Including Dyscalculia, 3rd Edition ebook
