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[quote=Anonymous]Trying to sort out best course going forward for daughter in 9th grade. She seems to have oddly specific math anxiety. It’s not there in any other subject. Our school does three math tracks. In 6th grade, she was recommended for the highest track - what leads to BC in 11th grade (for context, she didn’t know that part) and promptly bombed her next text. Her teacher recommended she drop down to the track that puts them in AB or BC in 12th. That seemed like plenty of math to me, so it wasn’t a problem. After the decision was changed, she went back to getting all high A’s. (She was also still “messy”’on tests which was also a factor that made sense to me)

7th grade, she did great the first half of the year, but had a lot more test anxiety as the year went on … even a panic attack one test. We had a conference with her and the teacher and decided she would continue on current track. She did do better the last few tests of the year. The next year went ok for the first half, but there’s was a lot of anxiety at home… not nearly as bad as the year before. However, we were now up to ninth grade, and she wanted an otherwise very advanced schedule and asked to drop down to lower math level … heading to only three years of math or standard calc in 12. This is not an irreversible decision in 9th, so we said ok.

So now, in 9th, she’s in standard geometry. For context, she’s in advanced physics, where she had to teach herself trig (which she did) and is doing well. She’s also killing it in 10th grade honors language, as well as English.  Math, however, is ridiculous. She’s hardly working and getting 100 on everything. But, upside, she’s happy!

Long story,,, but thoughts? Her math teacher was already confused and called to ask about moving her up during the first month of school. It’s now too late until next year. But should we be pushing her a little in math. We have tried learning support for anxiety, but she is resistant to that.[/quote]

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