📋 What to expect
What is dyscalculia?
Dyscalculia is a specific learning difficulty that affects the ability to understand and manipulate numerical concepts. It affects approximately 3–7% of the population. Like dyslexia, dyscalculia is not related to intelligence — highly intelligent people can have severe dyscalculia. It manifests as persistent difficulties with numbers, calculations, quantity estimation, and understanding numerical relationships.
Common signs in adults
Dyscalculia in adults may manifest as: difficulty memorising multiplication tables or formulas, confusion between similar numbers (69/96), inability to estimate quantities or distances, difficulty managing a budget or reading an invoice, problems reading time on an analogue clock, and intense anxiety in situations involving numbers.
About the test
This dyscalculia screening test is based on scientifically validated criteria per DSM-5 guidelines. It evaluates the main dimensions of numerical cognition: number sense, mental arithmetic, numerical fact memory, and mathematical reasoning. This is a screening tool, not a clinical diagnosis.