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when was dyscalculia discoverd and declared a disability ?
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| heatherriver |
Posted on November 01 2007 09:54 PM
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i would like to know about the history of dyscalculia,so to speak. does anyone know when and who discovered it? When and who declared it a disability? |
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| Toe_Nail |
Posted on November 02 2007 03:08 PM
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Hi heatherriver, welcome to the forum 
There was an article posted a while back in the Articles forum area which I can't find (it's always like that when I try to find something  But the article is probably still there) If i remember correctly the article was entitled something along the lines of "People knew back in 19XX (can't remember exact year)" - But I read somewhere else that research on dyscalculia (which wasn't called 'dyscalculia' then) date from way before then.
Probably that Geoff or another one of the forum's administrator can answer your question better than I.
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer -- Albert Einstein |
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| heatherriver |
Posted on November 02 2007 07:27 PM
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thank you toe nail. i will try to have a look at that article. |
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| eoffg |
Posted on November 03 2007 11:48 AM
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As to the history, if you look back a couple of thousand years, to the 'Works of Plato'?
You'll find that Maths Difficulties were even being discussed back then!
Where they had questions about the Models and Methods that they were using for Maths?
Yet on other parts of the earth, in different cultures.
Different models and methods were being developed and practiced.
Where all of these models and methods have continued to evolve and change throughout the centuries!
Where the reason that it continues to evolve and change?
Is that their is no single model/ method that works for everyone?
So whether you have a difficulty with maths, Dyscalculia, is largely down to the 'time and place' that you are born in?
Where for example, many Members here use 'finger-counting', which they feel embarrassed about?
Yet, for some cultures historically, this was the standard way of working with Maths.
So that instead of viewing someone that relies on 'finger-counting' as having a maths difficulty?
It was the opposite way around?
It was more the situation of a person who couldn't do 'finger-counting'?
That was classed as having a maths difficulty!
Yet a new Model came about, around a hundred years ago!
With the introduction of something that we now take for granted!
Called Paper !
Which people could afford to buy!
Along with Ink !
So about a hundred years ago, the new Model of writing numbers down on paper, and doing maths calculations on paper. Was introduced to the general public.
But in Europe, an important part of this new model of 'doing maths calculations on paper'?
Was the conversion from the traditional use of Roman Numerals, to the Arabic Numeral system?
So for example: one hundred and thirty three, instead of being written as CXXXIII would be written as 133.
Where CXXXIII is more suitable for some people, but 133 is more suitable for other people?
So the people that will be defined as having a maths difficulty/ disability, will depend on whether we adopt the CXXXIII or 133 as the standard symbols?
Yet in our current age, we are making a transition into a new Model of Maths?
Digital Maths.
Where we might soon be talking about Digital Dyscalculia?
So that in terms of the history of Dyscalculia?
It began many thousands of years ago, with marks being made on sticks?
But when the 'stick' became full of 'marks', and required an extra stick to be used, for marks?
This created confusion?
From the 'stick full of marks', we created the idea of ten: 10 or X.
Then onto 10 small sticks, being represented by one 'Big Stick' : C or 100.
Though before this grows into a Tree?
My basic point in relation to the history of Dyscalculia?
Is that we are really talking about how different cultures throughout the world. Have continued to developed models for representing and communicating Quantities.
Where the greatest problem, is with idea that passing or failing maths?
Is based on doing Maths, using a particular Model?
Which comes to real issue?
Which is that it is not important, the method that you use to do a maths calculation?
But rather, that you arrive at the correct answer!
So what if I 'count on my fingers'?
As long as I get the answer correct, the method that I use to arrive at a correct answer. Should be left to me!
You came in the front door, I came in the back door.
We both arrived in the same place.
Who came in the wrong way?
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| Countess |
Posted on November 05 2007 10:58 AM
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Here it is:
http://dyscalculi...d=514#3386
'You should really be sympathetic to people who suffer 'Normalism' (Geoff)
My Child (born 97) has Dyscalculia
Sorry for any spelling mistakes ;-) |
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| Toe_Nail |
Posted on November 05 2007 06:23 PM
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Aha! It wasn't in the forum's article section!
I thought it was my visual perception problem doing tricks on me again 
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| ert |
Posted on November 10 2007 09:16 PM
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You can read about that in the "What is dyscalculia" section on this website. Check the top left navigation (menu). |
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