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[quote=Anonymous]So why would my 4th grader on full medication support for ADHD struggle with math? She started out strong, easily working the abbacus and large numbers / regrouping when she was still in PreK, but since starting school, each year was worse than the one before. We're both engineers, and provide her with plenty support at home. School has been absent from the math equation until this year, because she's been the proverbial "forgotten child'. Starting so strong, she has had plenty time to get bored and fall behind.

This established pattern has been one of the reasons we decided on private school this year -- the small class, the additional math specialist in the classroom every day. Yet frankly, this has really been her worst year. I just don;t get it. None of it is rocket science, and she has plenty repetition and support. But at random times, she becomes completely disoriented and gives up. Then we all (teachers, extended care teacher, parents) swoop in to help her break things down. At that point, all is lost -- she has to re-learn everything from scratch. And later on, it happens again. Her teacher reports that she only learns new concepts through 1:1 sessions, rather than from the classroom explanations -- something we suspected before. Why?

How do we turn this around?

Her test scores placed her at the upper limit of the high average IQ, and her strenghts are fluid reasoning and memory (both long and short term). This would reasonably mean a certain ease in basic math... but that's not what I see... Instead she's focused on reading and writing, social studies (as long as it's her project -- again, little retained from the classroom teacher) and more recently, science. I realize that not everyone becomes a math wiz, but we're talking 4th grade here, not a career in math...

Help?![/quote]

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