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[quote=Anonymous]You may want to get your kids some tutoring, OP, because your innumeracy is probably causing your kids' problems. I'm sorry if that sounds harsh, like "blame the mom," because I hate that kind of attitude. But there was a study that just came out a few months ago - University of Missouri?? - that showed that children who didn't understand numbers as concepts (not just counting) by the time they hit kindergarten/first grade were way more likely to be bad at math by later grades. They get left behind, and it gets far hard to catch up later.

In any case, if you were bad at math you probably still don't have a strong conceptual understanding of math and when your kids were preschool age you may not have taught them to think about math beyond basic counting. If they then didn't pick it up the conceptual approach in kindergarten or 1st grade, then because of the progressive nature of mathematics instruction, they may be falling behind every year.

In any case, they can get caught up now with the right tutoring. I'd get them help now rather than just assume that they aren't innately smart. [/quote]

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