MATH HELP!!!!

Posted: Sun, Feb 06 2011, 5:24 pm Post subject: MATH HELP!!!!

My 14 year old DD is a bright kid, who does well in all academic subjects except math.
She is very motivated to do well and spends hours on doing her math HW with both DH and I.
She has also had math tutors and math resource room, to no avail.
She does not get the basic math concepts, nor can she remember basic math facts.
She does not have a bad memory, she memorized the periodic table for fun, but seems to have a mental block for math.
I know the diagnostic name is Dyscalculia, but what can we do about it?

Any help would be appreciated. She loves science and her inability to succeed in math will limit and hinder her educational and career prospects.
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I used a math curriculum called mathusee for my ds (he's alot younger than your child so I dont know if this is at all helpful) and it is a very different way of teaching math. it worked pretty well for him

Posted: Sun, Feb 06 2011, 11:21 pm Post subject: re: MATH HELP!!!!

My child is younger, but I am a big fan of kumon.

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a little bit more please. How does your daughter learn best in other areas? What if she has to memorize a list of vocabulary or spelling words or simanim for the 12 shevatim? Does she make a song out of it, or drill herself or make posters? What are activities that are easy for her? Drama? music? Art? Literature? Does she write well? What type of things does she like to write about?

Can you give a specific example of a math topic which she has trouble understanding and a math calculation that she does not remember? Does she know the steps of long division? Does she know her mutliplication tables?