Cuba launches book about educational tools book on dyscalculia

MANZANILLO, Cuba, Feb 14 (ACN) The book Dyscalculia: didactic-pedagogical vision, by Cuban Fredi Fonseca Tamayo, provides valuable educational tools to treat students with this difficulty in learning mathematics.

Doctor in Pedagogical Sciences and resident of this coastal city(eastern Cuba) in the province of Granma, Fonseca Tamayo conceived the text as the result of a deep research that began with the diploma work in option to the title of specialist in Speech Therapy, and was consolidated years later in his doctoral thesis.

When he achieved the high scientific degree, in 2019, he wanted the work to be collected within a manuscript and made available to teachers on the island and other latitudes, for bibliographical review and use for the benefit of students with the referred specific disorder, he said in statements to the Cuban News Agency.

The term dyscalculia, he said, describes a neurological condition that hinders the understanding of mathematics in schoolchildren with normal intelligence, mainly in primary education, who perform one or more arithmetic operations in a deficient manner.

Divided into three sections or sections, the volume provides, among others, exercises for the correction and/or compensation of failures related to scales, operations, mental calculations and mathematical problems, at the same time that it deepens in the characteristics of a dysfunction whose diagnosis takes place from the second grade of schooling, Fredi added.

Although Manzanillo teachers already use it in digital format as a methodological tool, Fredi expressed his wish that it could be published under the label of the local publisher Orto, in order to make it available to all teachers in the province.