ABSTRACT
Dyslexic children who have difficulties with reading will almost always have problems with reading mathematical text. Mathematics books and examinations have ‘word’ problems that have to be read correctly or there is no way that an accurate answer will be found. ‘Pure’ dyscalculic children may be able to read the words, but they interpret them wrongly, so very little of the question will make any sense to them. For example a student read a question on shape that included the word ‘parallelogram’. He stopped, looked carefully at the drawing, then said, ‘This word ends in gram but the question is nothing to do with weight, so what does this word mean?’
