Pedagogy students awareness on learning disabilities of mathematics (DAM)

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the awareness of students of elementary school teaching and nursing school teaching of learning disabilities of mathematics (DAM). The research adscribes a quantitative, non-experimental and descriptive approach survey. Data were analyzed through SPSS 14.0 and the techniques were mainly descriptive statistics of medium tendency and dispersion (typical deviation), frequency calculus, percentage and the t test for comparing media among the different groups. Results show that even though students have some knowledge on this matter, it is not enough so that to develop competences that will allow them a positive intervention in the classroom.