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How Early Intervention and Tutoring Helped One Student With Dyscalculia

By Jaclyn Borowski — October 7, 2024 2:15
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For Tessa Marshall, those things that often come easy to kids—numbers, colors, shapes, tying their shoes—were always a challenge.

In 3rd grade, she was diagnosed with dyscalculia and transferred to a Montessori school where the opportunity to learn individually with a teacher, and in a group of students in 1st through 3rd grades, helped her catch up. Now a freshman in high school, she continues to receive math tutoring twice a week for her honors geometry class.

Here, she discusses what she wishes teachers knew not only about dyscalculia, but also about teaching students with the learning disability.

Jaclyn Borowski is the director of photography and videography for Education Week.

Coverage of students with learning differences and issues of race, opportunity, and equity is supported in part by a grant from the Oak Foundation, at . Education Week retains sole editorial control over the content of this coverage.

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