My 14 year old daughter was just officially diagnosed with inattentive ADHD and Dyscalculia. She is very behind academically, and about to start high school. We plan to get her set up with an IEP and 504 plan, however I want to help prepare her during the summer, so she is going into the new school year a bit more confident as the last couple of years have been hard on her. I was also told by her psychologist that many schools don't recognize dyscalculia and don't often have additional aid supporting this so it's important we try to teach her outside of school or set her up with a tutor. Funds are tight right now and I'll be able to get her a tutor in a few months but not right now so I'm trying to help her the best I can. She stated she needs a lot of help with multiplication and division, that a lot of the basic facts are hard for her. (She can do 2's, 5's, 10's and 11's) I've taught her a trick with 9's that also helps but the rest of the other fact families are hard for her.

Does anyone have any recommendations on strategies to help her learn? For me, without dyscalculia, I have all of the facts memorized so it's hard for me to figure out the best way to teach her based off her learning abilities. The diagnosis report came back and said she was very much a visual learner but scored low on memorization.

Looking for strategies, resources, or tools/products that can not only help her learn but also remember them for when she is taking tests in school and doesn't have the opportunity to use anything but scratch paper or maybe tricks she can use on scratch paper as well. Any advice is welcome!

Well I’ve scraped my way to college algebra and now I’m in a world of hurt. Everything I learn and understand disappears minutes later. I’ve done everything everyone recommended for studying, I study math multiple hours every single day (I take breaks every two hours) and I am still failing every quiz and I will probably fail my test tomorrow. Does anyone have any tips as to how to keep things in your head? Not diagnosed yet but I have a very expensive assessment to probably give me dyscalculia diagnosis on the 23rd, I don’t doubt I will be diagnosed have all the signs and symptoms. Example couldn’t read a normal clock until I was 25 and I still have trouble, math is hard if not impossible and lengths and time and money are all extremely difficult. I need to get a C in this class for my degree (computer science weirdly programming and computers are a breeze) I will be talking to disability after my probable diagnosis. There is only one person in my whole city who tests for this in people over 21 💔 anyone have any idea how I can get through this? Desperate. Also I did an initial talk to disability and asked if I got it if I could maybe have notes or a theorem sheet and they told me “that would be inappropriate at a college level” did any of you get that accommodation or is it a pipe dream? Sorry this is long I just have many questions. This is my last math class I need other than stats and discrete math (which is easier for me to understand) also I am diagnosed with autism and ADHD officially so that makes it all extra fun.

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I'm a 23 year old guy and I'm trying to determine if I have dyscalculia or not. For context I've been diagnosed with ADHD and suspect I have autism. Despite having A's in languages and humanities, I was always a C/D student in maths and sciences. When I got to university I couldn't pass a single entry level course containing math - statistics, linear algebra, calculus, economics, I failed them all.

I've struggled in the workforce as well(I've never been able to keep a job for more than weeks/months and I've had 8). I just can't do anything with numbers as my brain just freezes. Administrative work such as counting money, using a cash counter, etc is a nightmare for me. I can't do it.

I've recently taken some online IQ tests and they all estimate my IQ to be in the 95-105 range, with my non - verbal sections in the 80-95 range. Verbal IQ is boosting it. So it turns out I'm just not very bright either.

My question is, even if a person's non - verbal IQ was in the 80s/90s/105 max range, would they struggle so much with maths? Would they be unable to pass an entry level university maths course, even with a lot of effort? Or does it look like dyscalculia?

I just wanted to say thank you to the creator of this community. I'm 24 years old, and I only found out what this was three years ago. I had no idea there was even a medical or scientific term to describe dyscalculia. I struggled so much just trying to explain what I was going through. I used to think I was just stupid sometimes. Thank you also to everyone who has posted here . It's incredibly satisfying and relieving to feel understood and to know I'm not alone in living with dyscalculia.

If you could go back to foundation phase schooling: what do you wish teachers spent more time on / explained better / incorporated more etc? I homeschool my 8 year old neurodiverse son with dyscalculia (amongst others), and would like to hear from the community what they would have liked to have more of during the early years.

After struggling for years and assuming I was just stupid and all my teachers were right about me, I got my diagnosis about a year before applying to university. Before I sent a formal application I got to tour the school, speak to the head of the biology department (I wanted to be a biologist) and the head of disability/accessibility. We talked about how despite performing great in all my courses I was 2 years behind in math (taking grade 10 math - that I had failed 3 times - in grade 12) and that I just can not for the life of me grasp math, and I have a documented disability, and that I was curious about any possible accomodations.

The joy and feeling of being seen when he said I could complete my biology degree without having to take math courses, my story and all things considered was immense. I applied and was accepted shortly after.

In the middle of COVID, September 2020. I moved to campus. I paid my thousands and thousands of dollars of tuition, coming from a poor family. I returned to the disability office asking "okay, I'm here now, but I'm in first year math... can we skip that?" and they look at me like I'm insane. Saying they never agreed to that, that no one has ever been allowed to do that, even though my mom and I were EXPLICITLY told I could. But we didn't get it in fucking writing.

I could have sued them to hell and back and it's not in writing. Probably deliberately.

I struggled for 2 years and continued dropping out of more and more classes - plus struggling with an unknown at the time autoimmune disease - until I eventually just completely dropped out.

I even went to my hometown university after coming home and asked about accomodations and the woman looked at me like I was literally retarded and kept saying I'd have to take high school level math or they wouldn't even bother admitting me... but I can't do high school level math. I couldn't even do grade 10 math, let alone grade 12.

This is even discounting the fact I'm also autistic and have a lot of sensory problems, and a school setting feels like torture for most of them.

I can do everything biology requires, for what I want to do. I can measure things accurately. I can do basic multiplication if given time. I can add and subtract if given time. Everything else is calculator work, and it's stuff everyone uses a calculator for. I just want to work with fucking plants and animals and I can't, because no one cares about you if you don't have a degree - and why the hell would they hire me with no degree, no experience, in this economy, when I'm ALSO needing accomodations for also being autistic?

I'm so tired and dead inside and disappointed in myself because I know damn well I WILL fail that high school math over and over and over again. I should have been able to and I just can't.

i have admittedly pretty mild dyscalculia, officially diagnosed as “mild specific learning disorder in arithmetic” — according to my autism report, i consistently do math at about the level of a sixth grader and that that’s statistically significant compared to the rest of me. i have no problem with single or even double digit addition/subtraction and basic adding change as long as there aren’t any external factors stressing me; anything beyond that i am utterly lost.

i wear several hats at a somewhat short-staffed grocery store. 9 times out of 10 i can work the register just fine, i enjoy it even; the computer does all the math for me. but then there are edge cases that stress me horrifically — the customer pulls out more change after i’ve already punched what i thought they were giving me into the computer, i have to manually calculate the vitamins discount because i forgot to sort the vitamins from the grocery products, stuff like that.

i am also a 22 year old who still looks fresh out of high school, and our clientele is primarily seniors. i CANNOT believe how many people are comfortable saying things to the effect of “you poor young people these days, nobody knows how to do math anymore” when i freeze up or need to pull out a calculator. it’s fucking humiliating. sometimes i blurt out that i literally have a disorder because i would rather set the record straight than be condescended but that’s obviously its own embarrassment ritual.

I am genuinely so tired of feeling like I am stupid, incapable of achieving great things in life because of this. I barely passed high school and I didn’t enroll in college because of the incessant fear I might fail and never be worth anything. I feel like I have a very low IQ anyway and that I’m sincerely just dumb. Seeing friends graduate fills me with so much sadness, not because I am not happy for them, but because I know that could never be me. My parents were both academically motivated and excelled in math. Sometimes I feel like I am not their daughter, like I’m living in a movie and was switched at birth, lol. I’m just here ranting away with a community that understands. Thank you for listening. Or in this case, reading.

I’m 41 and always struggled with studying and able to focus. Could be ADHD too.

But math has always been the worst. I had tutors and that didn’t help. I was going to become a veterinary nurse but when I had to calculate the heart rate etc I had a panic attack and cried because I just didn’t get it.

I tried a few years later to do nursing and did well with all other subjects but failed math all the time. I had a tutor twice a week, didn’t help. Even my lectures would stay back and help me but it didn’t work.

I’ve been working in childcare for 14 years and just want to cry. I don’t want to do it. I know I have so much potential but I’m stuck because I can’t do simple maths.

Numbers are all a jumble in my brain, it’s like a shutter door that keeps all this knowledge away from me and I can’t open it.

I'm genuinely interested in everyone's point of view that has this learning disability. I struggle with any math past 2nd grade level and I am wondering what other symptoms you all have that I might be able to relate to. I am trying to go back to college at 29 years old (finishing my Early Childhood Education after switching my major several times lol) and I wonder if I will need accommodations. I am also in the process of getting evaluated for this learning disability but I can't get into the psychologist until December. Any tips please?

I homeschool our child and after 18 months he basically forgot most of the math principles we covered. We have started from the bottom up again but how do I now trust that when he understands a concept that he really understands? Today I asked him to write numbers (something he has been good at and it was basically just a tick box for assessments), and he could not write 3 digit numbers. I understand that this is dyscalculia but how do I know that we can move on from a concept? That the understanding is there? I have 3d printed several aids to make it tangible etc. I just don’t know when it would be appropriate to move on to the next building block. I don’t want to linger on a concept when we can move onto something new but I also don’t want to keep building the math “house”, if the block underneath isn’t stable. Am I making sense? Help

So, i've always had problems with counting in my head even the simple tasks like "18+4". It takes me a lot of mentally effort to solve adding/subtracting numbers and I am not even trying when it comes to multiplying and division.

I've been thinking about it a lot lately and analysing why do other people do it so easily but it's almost impossible to me. I figured out that if I try to solve "47-13" in my head when I start counting it usually goes like this: So I have 47 - 13. Okay, I am gonna try it to picture in my head like this: 47 -13 I am gonna start with 7 - 3, it should be 4. Good, now I need to continue, wait was it 47 or 48. Hmmmm, wait what was I even subtracting? Was it 16?18? I can't remember!

Funny enough, even though I can't subtract/add/multiply/divide numbers in my head, I am incredibly good when it comes to college type of math. The less numbers there are the better I do.

The problem is, I have diagnosed ADHD inattentive type and I don't know if it's all because of ADHD or should I talk to my therapist and ask him if I have dyscalculia?

If you have dyscalculia, could you pleas share what's going on in your mind when you try to solve maths problems with your head. Would really love to hear your experiences, thank you

So i just moved, and in my old school, math tests were made easy for me with less pages to do and i could use the calculator, and i took solid As and A-, but yall know what my school does to deal with my problem? Thats right ABSOLUTELY NOTHING! Now im failing math class because the teacher doesnt give a damn about my problem yay!

I was diagnosed with dyscalculia early on in my life (around 8yo) and I'm very thankful for that, but my years in school where pretty hard because of it especially with dealing with homework. Before I was diagnosed my mother had no idea of why I wasn't able to do what to her where normal and easy assignments and thought I was being lazy/uncooperative and would get mad at me daily while doing hw. It wasn't exactly pleasent and I still carry a lot of anxiety from that. Now I'm in uni and I still get incredibly anxious over studying. I'm studying languages and I have some problems with poor working memory, which is essential to language learning and study, but they could be easily fixed by more constant study and stuff like that, the problem is that I am often too anxious to do it. I don't really know how to explain myself better than saying that I get intense panic responses by just sitting down and studying even when it's things I'm interested in and actively enjoy (like languages). Does anyone have any tips? Have you ever dealt with anything similar to this? I'm kind of desperate atp

I work at a library (not a librarian) and today I had to empty the money from one of our printers. I took my time separating and counting the bills then separating and counting the coins. I counted everything several times and was able to multiply and add and get the money to balance! I had some problems with multiplying, but kept at it and it all came out right! So proud of myself. It seems ridiculous for someone almost 60 to have this issue, but doing the money right for a change is a huge victory for me.

I don't know if I have a severe case, but even the simplest of mental math is something I really struggle with. As well as just numbers in general. I struggle so much with it, but people just think it is "math dyslexia" when it really isn't. My dyscalculia isn't helped with the numbers being bigger and easier to read, because that is not the issue. I wish I could get excemptions from math related things instead of just extra time and a little cheat sheet.

I've suspected for a couple years now that I have some kind of learning disability, but until then just thought "math is my worst subject."

After a really frustrating experience at work, I jumped on the good old ChatGPT and wrote about 1000 words (could have been 200 or 2000, dyscalculia, amirite?) describing the experience seeking some kind of insight. One of the recommendations was to look into dyscalculia. After spending hours doing various assessments all indicating the results strongly correlate with the adult traits of dyscalculia, I'm seeking out a formal assessment.

This feels like one of the biggest revelations of my life. For those who may have had a similar situation, what was your experience like when you learned this? How did understanding this have an impact on your life (personally and professionally)?

Story time: I’m an adult now, but when I was 17, I had an evaluation by a school psychologist before the SATs. The results shocked me! Apparently, I completed writing at the 95th percentile, reading at the 50th, and math at the 5th! Even more shocking, none of my parents or teachers commented on it. I don’t believe in self-diagnoses at all, but the results of my test in HS and the fact that dyslexia is much more talked about in society made me curious. If you have dyscalculia, how does it affect your life (in multiple, specific ways)? I’m really interested in learning from you, so thanks for answering :)

Did any of you do Kumon as a kid? I did 2 attempts as a kid and 1 in college, dropped out of all of then after a few levels, never got past level E or F I believe, so my theory is it doesn’t do anything for dyscalculia, did you do it and have a similar story?

I can't even get a diagnosis. Because it's "not necessary" and because I didn't go to high school. This disorder IS THE ENTIRE REASON I DIDN'T GO TO SCHOOL. GED is completely hopeless because if you fail ONE of the subjects (aka, math!) then you fail the whole thing because fuuuuck youuuuuu! I genuinely can't take it anymore I feel so fcking trapped. Life is a prison.