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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here. Thank you all for the recommendations and hope! For those who tutored their own kids, did you try to keep up with the class work? Or did you start from scratch and reteach? Do you think any of the online practice is good? I've heard that with dyscalculia online work and worksheets are not helpful. Rather, all of the work should be hands on. I have been using some of the IXL units for repetition, but I still sit with him as he works through it to make sure that he is trying. Part of our challenge is convincing our DS that he can learn math and him wanting to do so. [/quote]

I'm the poster who taught my son math. We're scientists, so for us math is non-negotiable, we consider it to be an extremely beneficial exercise in logic and reasoning, and my son accepted that fact - it's important to note, because we didn't have to deal with refusal to learn. So we just looked at his work, and explained it to him. It always led to finding weak spots in his understanding of basic concepts, so we then had to inch backwards to find where the weakness was and deal with it, before going back to his homework and saying: "now you know why equations need to be balanced, or now you know what this formula actually means and how it was developed, what can you do with this problem?", and accompany him and re-explain until he got it. Most of the time, teachers don't have time for proofs and explanations, so students just apply the formula unthinkingly and then fail when the problems look slightly different. Our job was to explain why the rules were the rules, and why it doesn't work if the rule isn't followed. It takes so much time to do this, yet it's so worth it when your child masters concepts and feels confident and in control. We didn't use them very much, but Khan academy videos are popular. We also used some Art of Problem Solving videos for the proofs (they're free).

Since my son also has ADHD, he needed to be medicated for all this to work, otherwise he wouldn't have been able to pay sufficient attention for any of it to sink in...
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