Dyscalculia

Mathematics is oftentimes the subject of great debate on whether it is easy, difficult, simple, or complex. We already know of dyslexia from the greek roots "dys", meaning difficult, and "lexis", meaning speech. In addition to dyslexia we have dysgraphia and dyscalculia. Dysgraphia refers to the difficulty of writing, and dyscalculia, our topic of concern, refers to the difficulty of real and abstract thought relating to numbers (pattern recognition, counting, measuring, time, and even direction).

This is common!

Between 3% and 6% of the global population, where as British Dyslexia Association suggests it's 5% in the UK*. For example, if there are 26 million people in Australia, 1.3 million people will exhibit signs of dyscalculia. This doesn't account for other general difficulties with maths.