Students with a learning disability (LD) often do not create accurate visual representations or use them strategically to solve problems.
(Boonen, van Wesel, Jolles, & van der Schoot, 2014) However, students who use inaccurate visual representations are less likely to correctly solve mathematics problems than those who do not use visual representations at all.
Students who use accurate visual representations are six times more likely to correctly solve mathematics problems than are students who do not use them.