If you have a child that struggled/struggles in Math

[Anonymous]

If you have a child that struggled/struggles in Math

What grade is your child in?
What have you done to help them along? Tutoring? Move to a smaller class size?
What has helped?
Have you gotten your child tested?
Have you discovered a reason why your child struggles such as a learning disability?

For those with older kids, would love to hear how your child got through middle school and highschool and forward.

Thank you !

[Anonymous]

Did child's math teacher have any input into what's going on OP?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Did child's math teacher have any input into what's going on OP?

OP here. I'm looking for input beyond what the Math teacher says.
My child has gotten a lot of help from the school which I'm really thankful for but I'm afraid it's not the right kind of help- it's the kind of help that gets her through the SOLs.

[Anonymous]

NP here.

DS is in 3rd grade and dislikes math (he has a complex learning profile which might be gifted and learning disabled, plus ADHD).

He routinely makes mistakes in simple computations, and struggles to formulate word problems. This is apparent to me at home, however at school he gets all Ps since the standards are so low. The teacher has no idea.

As he is a predominantly visual learner, we enrolled him in abacus classes. This is a school staple of many Asian countries: it uses the left brain as well as the right brain to visualize beads on an abacus, whereas the conventional way of computing uses the right brain. You can Youtube it. It enables you to compute with small or very large numbers with equal ease and speed. This method is more appealing to him than math in the classroom.

Truthfully there is precious little he enjoys in the classroom and he would be better off in a special GT/LD class. We're trying to get there!

[Anonymous]

5th grade.
discovered the problem in second grade.
used Singapore 1st grade at end of second, then Singapore 2nd in third grade, and so on. Now we are caught up.
Friends did Kumon with same result.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you have a child that struggled/struggles in Math

What grade is your child in?
What have you done to help them along? Tutoring? Move to a smaller class size?
What has helped?
Have you gotten your child tested?
Have you discovered a reason why your child struggles such as a learning disability?

For those with older kids, would love to hear how your child got through middle school and highschool and forward.

Thank you !

Started to notice my child struggling in 3rd grade. She was put into small groups to get extra help and also an after school tutoring session. I am sure this was all intended to provide more SOL prep. She ended up failing the math SOL anyway. Just took her for a full battery of testing and the final report is still forthcoming but sounds like she does NOT have any learning disorders but may have weakness with working memory and possibly visual processing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Started to notice my child struggling in 3rd grade. She was put into small groups to get extra help and also an after school tutoring session. I am sure this was all intended to provide more SOL prep. She ended up failing the math SOL anyway. Just took her for a full battery of testing and the final report is still forthcoming but sounds like she does NOT have any learning disorders but may have weakness with working memory and possibly visual processing.

OP here again. Thank you for the insight. Would you mind posting back in here if you find anything in your child's tests that could be an underlying cause? thank you!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Started to notice my child struggling in 3rd grade. She was put into small groups to get extra help and also an after school tutoring session. I am sure this was all intended to provide more SOL prep. She ended up failing the math SOL anyway. Just took her for a full battery of testing and the final report is still forthcoming but sounds like she does NOT have any learning disorders but may have weakness with working memory and possibly visual processing.

OP here again. Thank you for the insight. Would you mind posting back in here if you find anything in your child's tests that could be an underlying cause? thank you!

Sure. Hope to see that final report soon. Have also posted recently in Special Needs, as have others, so might want to look there as well for similar discussions.