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<blockquote data-quote="claymama" data-source="post: 7428" data-attributes="member: 3276"><p>Ugh...sorry to hear things are so difficult at school.</p><p></p><p>My difficult child (2nd grade) is the exact opposite: He's doing math at 4th grade level and reading at early 1st grade. We are EXTREMELY fortunate that his ED class is very academic; he's gone from not reading at all at the end of August to reading at early 1st grade level now. But, as I said, we are lucky to have a great ED head teacher and 3 paras in the room (with 6-7 kids).</p><p></p><p>My one suggestion would be to find out if there is an LRC (learning resources) program at your school for non-ED kids that your difficult child could go to for some period of the day to work on math. For instance, my other son is struggling in math but gets pulled out of his mainstream class for 45 minutes a day to work on bringing his skills (along with his writing skills, which are sub-level) up to grade. It is not 1:1, but more like 3:1, and I see his work improving already.</p><p></p><p>If you can't get support at school, perhaps you could find a different way of teaching math skills at home. If your difficult child is struggling with the "traditional" methods of learning math facts and functions, I might recommend the "Everyday Math" curriculum. My daughter has a hard time with standard methodologies in multiplication and division, and that has helped her learn other ways of doing the problems. For instance, recently she was totally blocked on doing multiple digit multiplication with the dropping down of zeroes and all ... so, I (and her teacher ...gmta) taught her to do lattice multiplication. It clicked! She went in and passed her multiplication benchmark test with no problem.</p><p></p><p>Good luck!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="claymama, post: 7428, member: 3276"] Ugh...sorry to hear things are so difficult at school. My difficult child (2nd grade) is the exact opposite: He's doing math at 4th grade level and reading at early 1st grade. We are EXTREMELY fortunate that his ED class is very academic; he's gone from not reading at all at the end of August to reading at early 1st grade level now. But, as I said, we are lucky to have a great ED head teacher and 3 paras in the room (with 6-7 kids). My one suggestion would be to find out if there is an LRC (learning resources) program at your school for non-ED kids that your difficult child could go to for some period of the day to work on math. For instance, my other son is struggling in math but gets pulled out of his mainstream class for 45 minutes a day to work on bringing his skills (along with his writing skills, which are sub-level) up to grade. It is not 1:1, but more like 3:1, and I see his work improving already. If you can't get support at school, perhaps you could find a different way of teaching math skills at home. If your difficult child is struggling with the "traditional" methods of learning math facts and functions, I might recommend the "Everyday Math" curriculum. My daughter has a hard time with standard methodologies in multiplication and division, and that has helped her learn other ways of doing the problems. For instance, recently she was totally blocked on doing multiple digit multiplication with the dropping down of zeroes and all ... so, I (and her teacher ...gmta) taught her to do lattice multiplication. It clicked! She went in and passed her multiplication benchmark test with no problem. Good luck! [/QUOTE]
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