Discuss four characteristics of students with mathematics disabilities and their implications for instruction

What will be an ideal response?


ANSWER: Students with mathematics difficulties display many different characteristics. (It is
important to note that some students with learning disabilities have strengths in the area
of mathematics.) Among the characteristics are lack of mathematics early number
concepts, disturbances in spatial relationships, poor sense of body image, visual-motor
and visual perception disorders, language problems, reading problems, poor concepts of
direction and time, memory problems, lack of strategies for learning mathematics, and
math anxiety. These characteristics interfere with quantitative thinking and with
mathematics performance.

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