dyscalculia

English

WOTD – 27 September 2007

Etymology

From dys- (from Ancient Greek δυσ- (dus-, “bad”)) +‎ calculate (from Latin calculare).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌdɪskælˈkjuːli.ə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

dyscalculia (countable and uncountable, plural dyscalculias)

1. (pathology) A learning disability characterized by significantly below average mathematical ability.

   Some educators think requiring students with dyscalculia to study math in high school is a mistake because the dyscalculic students are unlikely to be capable of learning math.

Descendants

• → Norwegian Bokmål: dyskalkuli

Translations

pathology: difficulty with numbers

• Bulgarian: дискалкулия (diskalkulija)
• Catalan: discalcúlia (ca) f
• Czech: dyskalkulie
• Danish: talblindhed, dyskalkuli
• Dutch: dyscalculie (nl) f
• Estonian: düskalkuulia (et), düsmatemaatika (et)
• Finnish: dyskalkulia
• French: dyscalculie (fr) f
• German: Dyskalkulie (de) f, Rechenschwäche f
• Hungarian: diszkalkulia (hu), számolászavar
• Icelandic: talnablinda f, reikniblinda f
• Italian: discalculia (it) f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: dyskalkuli (no) m, tallblindhet m

• Polish: dyskalkulia (pl) f, dyskalkulia rozwojowa
• Portuguese: discalculia f
• Russian: дискалькули́я (ru) f (diskalʹkulíja)
• Serbo-Croatian: diskalkulija f
• Spanish: discalculia f
• Swedish: dyskalkyli (sv)
• Vietnamese: chứng khó học toán

See also

• acalculia
• dyslexia