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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How well does your daughter understand the underlying concepts? And does she have strategies to check her answers as she goes? If she's receptive to working with you (and I know not every child is willing to learn directly from the parent), there are a lot of really great resources online that will show you how to teach the concepts. I've found a lot of really good videos posted by teachers on youtube that share math teaching techniques. I then just pick and choose what works best for my kids based on their specific needs.[/quote]

A couple more thoughts:

*How well does she know her multiplication tables? If she can't very quickly produce the answers (2-5 seconds per problem) then everything else is going to be significantly more challenging. This is just a matter of memorizing. The 1s, 2s, 5s, 9s, 10s, and 11s are easy, so maybe start with those to build confidence.
*To make this more fun, you might consider introducing some card and board games. I'm more familiar with the earlier stuff (e.g. Sum Swamp, I Sea 10), but there are games like Decimal War and Fraction War (found them on Amazon just now) that look pretty decent for practicing in a way that doesn't just feel like drill-and-kill. [/quote]

We have been doing times tables almost every night and she's gotten much better. I will look into the card games, thanks! [/quote]

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