>>> "Lynda Ginsburg" <ginsburg at rci.rutgers.edu> 9/18/2007 9:30 PM >>>

Lenny, Pam and David,

I agree that many adults are anxious about math, and it often has to do
with tests. Lenny, your strategy of practicing for the test situation
until some of the fear subsided seems to have worked well.

In addition to anxiety there may be the possibility of a math specific learning disability. I read an interesting article in the NCSALL publication "Focus on Basics" on a condition called Dyscalculia. The article is available on line at http://www.ncsall.net/?id=325 . According to the article there are some specific signs of this condition, many of which I have seen in a couple of my students. 
 
Melvin
 
Melvin Rice
ABE Instructor
Kansas City Kansas Community College
melvinr at kckcc.edu 
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