When 1 + 1 = 5: Dyscalculia and Working Memory

Jacob’s moth­er writes that ‘Jacob, 10-years-old, still strug­gles with num­ber bonds to 10. Learn­ing to tell the time is still slow – he has not mas­tered half-past. Although he man­aged to learn his 5x tables because we prac­ticed all sum­mer, this has now gone’. Jacob has dyscal­cu­lia, a math dis­abil­i­ty where stu­dents strug­gle to learn or…

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Why working memory matters in the knowledge age: study

We use work­ing mem­o­ry to remem­ber direc­tions while dri­ving or someone’s name and phone num­ber. With­out it, we would be lit­er­al­ly lost; we wouldn’t know how to get to that impor­tant meet­ing and would for­get impor­tant con­tacts. Work­ing mem­o­ry is crit­i­cal for many activities.

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