Why Is Math So Hard for Some Children?: The

To help students with learning difficulties and disabilities improve their achievement in mathematics, teachers need a full understanding of why these students struggle. This is the first definitive research volume that explores the evidence base for students' difficulties with mathematics. More than 35 internationally known contributors from diverse fields share their expertise on risk factors for poor mathematics outcomes, connections between mathematics and reading disabilities, neuropsychological factors, information-processing deficits, math anxiety, and more. Comprehensive and multidisciplinary, this book gives educators the foundation they need to advance research, teaching strategies, and policies that identify struggling students--and help them improve.

Foreword : the birth of a new discipline
Historical and contemporary perspectives on mathematical learning disabilities	p. 7
Defining and differentiating mathematical Learning disabilities and difficulties	p. 29
Prevalence of developmental dyscalculia	p. 49
Information processing deficits in dyscalculia	p. 65
Strategy use, long-term memory, and working memory capacity	p. 83
Do words count? : connections between mathematics and reading difficulties	p. 107
Fraction skills and proportional reasoning	p. 121
Commentary on part I, section II : cognitive aspects of math disabilities	p. 133
Mathematical development in children with specific language impairments	p. 151
The contribution of syndrome research to understanding mathematical learning disability : the case of fragile X and turner syndromes	p. 173
Mathematical disabilities in congenital and acquired neurodevelopmental disorders	p. 195
Math performance of students with ADHD : cognitive and behavioral contributors and interventions	p. 219
Neuropsychological case studies on arithmetic processing	p. 245
Commentary on part II, section III : neuropsychological factors	p. 265
Neuroanatomical approaches to the study of mathematical ability and disability	p. 283
Quantitative genetics and mathematical abilities / disabilities	p. 307
Is math anxiety a mathematical learning disability?	p. 329
Influences of gender, ethnicity, and motivation on mathematical performance	p. 349
Early intervention for children at risk of developing mathematical learning difficulties	p. 373
Mathematical problem solving : instructional intervention	p. 397
Quantitative literacy and developmental dyscalculias	p. 415
Instructional interventions and quantitative literacy	p. 431
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Why Is Math So Hard for Some Children?: The Nature and Origins of Mathematical Learning Difficulties and Disabilities

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