Differential Influence of Demographic Variables on Dyscalculia dimensions

Dyscalculia is a specific learning difficulty that affects an individual's ability to perform mathematical tasks. The research was aimed at investigating whether gender and age have differential influence on the number sense, arithmetic operations, working memory dimensions of dyscalculia. design expo facto design. population all 87320 junior secondary school 1 2 students in Obio-Akpor local government area. sample consists 453 who been diagnosed with This randomly drawn using multistage sampling procedure. A standardized instrument, Test by Eteng-Uket, used for data collection. High validity reliability indices were obtained test. analyzed mean, standard deviation, one-way, two multivariate analyses variance. result showed independently interaction had dyscalculia dimensions, but this not significant. Based these findings, it recommended educators use variety individualized instructional strategies materials, including visual aids, manipulatives, adaptive technologies are effective different genders groups dyscalculics