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[quote=Anonymous]NP here. DS is in 3rd grade and dislikes math (he has a complex learning profile which might be gifted and learning disabled, plus ADHD). He routinely makes mistakes in simple computations, and struggles to formulate word problems. This is apparent to me at home, however at school he gets all Ps since the standards are so low. The teacher has no idea. As he is a predominantly visual learner, we enrolled him in abacus classes. This is a school staple of many Asian countries: it uses the left brain as well as the right brain to visualize beads on an abacus, whereas the conventional way of computing uses the right brain. You can Youtube it. It enables you to compute with small or very large numbers with equal ease and speed. This method is more appealing to him than math in the classroom. Truthfully there is precious little he enjoys in the classroom and he would be better off in a special GT/LD class. We're trying to get there! [/quote]
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