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[quote=Anonymous]My just turned 13 year old has ADHD and all the "dys's" - dysgraphia, dyscalculia, dyslexia. Math is a struggle. Well, it's all a struggle, but math especially. He's got a tutor and my DH goes over his math homework every day, which helps him learn the material.

He's already below grade level and he just failed his first test (59%), which was really just a review of last year. He knew how to do everything on this test. He failed for things like: 
1. Question is something like "3.67-2.99 = ?" and instead he solves "2.99-3.67" (I'm kind of glad he at least included the negative sign in his answer, because that was a huge issue last year, but he got that one wrong.)

2. One question asks for mode, average, median and he forgets to find one of them; he probably would have gotten that if there were three different questions. Also forgot to include one of the numbers when he was adding them to find the average.

3. He's asked to put a set of numbers in order and he mistakes a -10 for a ten.

4. Transposes digits in a multiplication problem.

I could go on and on.  We've told him a milllion times to slow down, to check his work. Extra time is not helpful because he's the first one done; he doesn't use the regular amount of time. If you tell him to go back and check his work, he'll sit down and look at his paper but not change anything, so he's not really checking.

He spends so much time learning how to do it and then just bombs anyway over stupid mistakes. 
Any ideas? Techniques, anything? [/quote]

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