Re: What a Lousy Disorder
Now wait just a darn minute. Count backwards from 100 by 7s as a test?
I'd have to do each subtraction in my head one at a time. And yes, my fingers sometimes start moving when I'm dealing with thirteens and fourteens, or figuring a tip.
This popped out to my cynical eye:
Dyscalculia researchers have speculated that the disorder gets less attention than dyslexia and other reading disorders for the same reason - it's not seen an urgent crisis like illiteracy. Research dollars bear this out. According to Butterworth's paper, the National Institute of Health has spent almost 50 times more money on dyslexia than dyscalculia since 2000 ($107.2 million vs. $2.3 million).
Follow the money?