Math (and reading) difficulties can easily be caused by lack of attention. Lack of attention can be caused by powerful imagination. Reading disabilities are called dyslexia while disability to do math is called dyscalculia. Are you left-brain dominant or right-brain dominant? It's commonly agreed that our right hemisphere is responsible for creative thinking, (day)dreaming, visualizing and so on.

People who're right brain-dominant tend to:

• Be artistic
• Daydream a lot
• Have difficulties paying attention
• Have difficulties focusing on one thing for a period of time
• Be creative
• Perform well at hand
• Visualise things to understand them better

So, if your child excels at:

• handcraft
• drawing
• brainstorming
• playing with Lego (tm)
• playing with Playmo(tm)
• woodworking
• cooking
• singing

...but struggled with:

• reading
• learning rhymes
• focusing
• remembering
• learning sequences (multiplication, days,months, time etc.)
• telling the time
• learning the meaning of symbols

Your child is probably a very creative learner - and should therefor use creative, visual learning methods!

Our system tends to "label" the creative students who often find it difficult to cope in todays restrictive learning environment.
The school system looks at those students as "learning disabled", while the fact is that they're indeed very bright and score high on IQ tests.

Conclusion: If your child performs well or above avarage in general, but still fails at some subjects at school, it's more likely that something's wrong with the teaching methods. 

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