One fairly common difficulty experienced by people with math problems is the inability to easily connect the abstract or conceptual aspects of math with reality. Understanding what symbols represent in the physical world is important to how well and how easily a child will remember a concept. Given a description of an equilateral triangle, for example, a student with this problem may find it impossible to visualize, or draw, such a triangle. A student with a deficiency in this skill may:
* not be able to distinguish between what is important in a math problem and what is not, particularly in word problems that include irrelevant information
* be unable to appreciate the appropriateness or reasonableness of solutions generated
* find it difficult to switch between multiple demands in a complex math problem
* have difficulty interpreting and manipulating geometric configurations
* find it difficult to tell when tasks can be grouped or merged and when they must be separated in a multi-step math problem
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