DYSCALCULIA AMONG PRIMARY SCHOOL CHILDREN: A CASE STUDY ON North 24 parganas DISTRICT OF WESTBENGAL

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Formal education, daily living activities and jobs require knowledge and application skills of counting and simple mathematical operations. Problems with mathematics start in primary school and persist till adulthood. This is known as dyscalculia and its prevalence in the school population ranges from 3 to 6.5%. The study included 1424 third-grade students (aged 9-10) of all primary schools in the Barahanagar of North 24 Pargana .Tests in mathematics were given in order to determine their mathematical achievement. 1078 students (538 boysand 540 girls) completed all five tests.The frequency of dyscalculia in the sample was 9.9%. The difference between boys and girls according to the total score on the test was statistically significant (p<0.005). The difference between students according to their school achievement (excellent,very good, good, sufficient and insufficient) was statistically significant for all tests (p<0.0005). The influence of place ofresidence/school was significant for all tests (p<0.0005). Independent prognostic variables associated with dyscalculia are marks in mathematics and language..Frequency of dyscalculia of 9.9% in the sample is higher than in the other similar studies. Further research shouldidentify possible causes of such frequency of dyscalculia in order to improve students` mathematical abilities.

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