A blog post about a new phenomenon similar to dyslexia: Discovering Biology in a Digital World
A big BUT: mathematics is not (only) about numbers – mathematics is about patterns, structures, regularities; about thinking consistently and diligently; about beauty.
David Hilbert, one of the greatest mathematicians of the last century who worked and lived in G̦ttingen was notoriously bad at arithmetic Рthere is an anecdote where he asks his students in his lecture what 7 + 5 equals: one says 11, another 13 (of course, it is 12 РI think? 
) : and David Hilbert does not recognize the error, but asks them to decide which of the two answers is true.
I just want to stress this, because you can bet on a lot of people using such studies as the one about dyscalculia to avoid doing math or make excuses. If you think you have dyscalculia, use a calculator to do the dumb arithmetic and concentrate on the conceptual parts. No need to pass up on this wonderful subject.
