When the brain doesn’t want to calculate

For those who suffer from mathematical weaknesses, or dyscalculia, numbers are often meaningless. Making estimations is difficult, as is comparing different values. Performing calculations is almost impossible. This impairment has substantial negative impacts on a sufferer’s performance in school and later in their working life.

During childhood, certain regions of the brain develop to specialize in the processing of numbers and mathematical tasks. For children with dyscalculia, this natural development is delayed; sometimes, it largely fails to occur at all. Calcularis offers a new and unique way of promoting essential learning and maturation processes in the brain. It combines modern findings from developmental psychology and neuroscience with tried-and-tested principles from the fields of information theory and computer science.