Drill and kill math, focused on computation, does not harness the strengths within the typical child with language-based learning difficulties. Carroll math teachers have been developing a very different approach to math education, working along side Dr. David Stevens of the Cognitive Development Center in Lexington.

A Carroll math class begins with cognitive warm ups that challenge a student's thinking skills related to quantity, grouping, and sequence. Carroll students then utilize their evolving thinking and problem solving skills to solve more traditional arithmetic, geometric, and algebraic problems. For a group of OG trained teachers, much of their OG knowledge is valuable. One essential change, though, has significantly improved the conceptual, application, and computation skills of our children: whereas in the sound-symbol association of letters and sounds have no intrinsic meaning, there is a fundamental quantity-symbol association in math that is ripe with meaning. We harness the conceptual and visual-spatial essence of math to develop students who understand how to compute numbers (not just operate from rote memory). Problem solving is a crucial part of the Carroll math program, as well as software programs that develop both computational and conceptual skills. Carroll math now accentuates the strengths within a dyslexic profile, as we create students who succeed in traditional math testing.