7. The student has overspecialized during the learning process so that she recognizes someaddition and/or subtraction situations as addition or subtraction but fails to classify othersituations appropriately.ExampleStudent recognizes that if there are 7 birds in a bush and 3 fly away, you cansubtract to find out how many are left.However, she may be unable to solve a problem that involves the comparisonof two amounts or the missing part of a whole.