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<blockquote data-quote="svengandhi" data-source="post: 263223" data-attributes="member: 3493"><p>Does your school have a math specialist or a math resouce room teacher?</p><p></p><p>I was able to use ours to give me some assistance with teaching my dyslexic son to do math. He is in grade 7 now and attends a private school for kids with dyslexia and other LDs. He is in a top math group and I think the early intervention really helped.</p><p></p><p>Kids learn math differently. At your daughter's age, frankly, memorization is not really an expected skill. My current 9th grader is math gifted, is in an advanced Honors class and even he did not have his times tables memorized in grade 1. It's too much to expect, it is NOT age appropriate, in my humble opinion as a parent of 5 and as a former "gifted" math student myself. If that is an expectation the school has of her, no wonder she is struggling. Most schools do not even teach by rote until 3rd or 4th grade. I think they should start exposing kids to simple concepts, like everything times one is itself and anything times 0 is zero, in grade 1 but not expect it to sink in to all but the most gifted before about 3rd grade.</p><p></p><p>She may also catch up on her own. I taught my youngest to count by letting him help me roll pennies first by ones, then by 2's, etc. Many kids need visual aids to help them learn math (even in my son's Honors class, they are taught to use colored pencils to help with geometry proofs). Try making it fun for her - take her shopping and let her help you with simple math. How many items have we bought? If I bought 2 tomatoes and I need 4 altogether, how many more do we need to get? If it's fun, it won't be so much like learning. As for the computer programs, my kids really disliked them - no matter what their math abilities were. They did like one called "The Logical Journey of the Zoombinis." I'm not sure exactly how it works but I think it has to do with visualizing it.</p><p></p><p>Sorry to be so long-winded.</p><p></p><p>I think retention has its place but if the way a child is taught after being retained doesn't change then the child is still going to have the same problems compounded by the shame of being held back.</p><p></p><p>Good luck to you.</p><p></p><p>My daughter, whose math skills "hoover" due to lead poisoning, did not learn her tables till middle school. At 12, she was counting on her fingers still. She is very musically inclined and we used things like Schoolhouse Rock and music videos on math to help her learn. I would suggest those for your daughter. My daughter actually used to sing the times tables to herself.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="svengandhi, post: 263223, member: 3493"] Does your school have a math specialist or a math resouce room teacher? I was able to use ours to give me some assistance with teaching my dyslexic son to do math. He is in grade 7 now and attends a private school for kids with dyslexia and other LDs. He is in a top math group and I think the early intervention really helped. Kids learn math differently. At your daughter's age, frankly, memorization is not really an expected skill. My current 9th grader is math gifted, is in an advanced Honors class and even he did not have his times tables memorized in grade 1. It's too much to expect, it is NOT age appropriate, in my humble opinion as a parent of 5 and as a former "gifted" math student myself. If that is an expectation the school has of her, no wonder she is struggling. Most schools do not even teach by rote until 3rd or 4th grade. I think they should start exposing kids to simple concepts, like everything times one is itself and anything times 0 is zero, in grade 1 but not expect it to sink in to all but the most gifted before about 3rd grade. She may also catch up on her own. I taught my youngest to count by letting him help me roll pennies first by ones, then by 2's, etc. Many kids need visual aids to help them learn math (even in my son's Honors class, they are taught to use colored pencils to help with geometry proofs). Try making it fun for her - take her shopping and let her help you with simple math. How many items have we bought? If I bought 2 tomatoes and I need 4 altogether, how many more do we need to get? If it's fun, it won't be so much like learning. As for the computer programs, my kids really disliked them - no matter what their math abilities were. They did like one called "The Logical Journey of the Zoombinis." I'm not sure exactly how it works but I think it has to do with visualizing it. Sorry to be so long-winded. I think retention has its place but if the way a child is taught after being retained doesn't change then the child is still going to have the same problems compounded by the shame of being held back. Good luck to you. My daughter, whose math skills "hoover" due to lead poisoning, did not learn her tables till middle school. At 12, she was counting on her fingers still. She is very musically inclined and we used things like Schoolhouse Rock and music videos on math to help her learn. I would suggest those for your daughter. My daughter actually used to sing the times tables to herself. [/QUOTE]
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