Re: Re: At my wit's end

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Hi,

I have been where you guys are with my oldest son... to the point where desks were turned up and him running from the room hiding to avoid doing math. We struggled until he graduated.... now he is in Jr. college taking math again... ugh. Oe one of my list I saw something about home schooling with two math programs mentioned... I looked into both. The one I chose to purchase was Teaching Textbooks. It can be done on the computer which appealed to my son. It did him wonders and he is skating through the course he is taking. If I knew about it when he was in elementary school it would have made all the difference in the world. The other one is Math U See, and looks great for teaching concepts... I am thinking about it for my other two guys who are lower functioning.

Hope this helps.

Pam

( ) Re: At my wit's endWow, Melinda! This sounds like what I've dealt with when working on math with my 4th grade daughter. I noticed that she was having difficulty with math in 2nd, 3rd and 4th grades. In 2nd and 3rd grade, the teachers said she was doing fine. At home, she was having meltdowns from the stress she experienced trying to figure out the math problems. It was like her mind stressed out so much that she couldn't think clearly and she 'blanked out' on what to do. In 4th grade, her teacher has now said that she needs help in math--addition and the rest. The only thing I could think of is that she might have copied others' papers to save herself the embarrassment of being considered 'dumb' as some kids were calling her this. Also, she once told me that she received help from kids who were trying to help her out. The obvious problem with this is that she wasn't really learning how, but just waiting for the answer...or she understood for awhile, but after she finished the worksheet, she didn't retain it. I don't know. It's sad that despite my concerns voiced at school, nothing was done until the last months of her elementary school year. Take care! --Kari>> It's been awhile since I've posted. We are in the middle of trying to get a formal diagnosis with our daughter, . She just turned 10 in Dec. I've been dealing with a lot of issues since she was 18 months old. She's been in speech therapy since she was 22 months. She was just found eligible for further services under SLD, yet the school has no specific learning disability. > > She appears to have some major auditory processing issues and may be dyslexic as well. The psych we are seeing currently suspects some sort of PDD as well. She also has OCD issues that are mild to severe. > > She had the evaluation done by the school and the person who did the evaluation for the educational part had a two-page list of "suggestions" for her. All mainly comprehension and reading issues. A lot of auditory suggestions. So comprehension is a huge issue. The psychologist mainly found she has short term memory issues. He didn't see it as significant, but hey, short term memory issue is a HUGE issue.> > So far this year, the teacher hasn't been very supportive. She just thinks everything is going to be "okay". We've just had major struggles the past two weeks with her trying to learn how to divide one digit into 2 digits. She has struggled with it for 2 weeks. My 16 year old daughter (who has been in advanced math since 4th grade) tried to help her last night and found that she forgets to go back and get the remaining number in the original number. She brings the first number down and subtracts the difference and then will either use the same number again or make up a number. We decided that using a skeleton (picture with boxes where she'd have to fill in numbers) would be helpful as a visual. I emailed the teacher this morning to find out that she did fine with the two digit number with minimal help. And she said she did fine on her test, but only with the two-digit number, not the 3. > > So here I am, saying that she has struggled and had great difficulty and the teacher says that at school, she does wonderful. The teacher emailed me back and said she told to do her work at home with NO HELP and she'd see what she did when she gets to school. I asked for a visual. Nothing was mentioned about it. The teacher said she didn't want ME having to struggle with her at home. I'm so confused at this point. is not one to "play" me with trying to get work done if she can't. One of her obssessions is to please and get everything right. So if she's not getting it at home, why is she getting it at school-supposedly? I don't know who to believe or what to think. I've been trying to do thing to see if is just yanking my chain here at home to get attention with helping with homework, but she's been really frustrated. > > What do you think?> > Thanks,> > Melinda>------------------------------------