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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here- we did buy a few textbooks and they have been only helpful a little bit.[/quote]

This is a you problem, if a textbook isn’t helping.  I am a tutor.  Alg II covers largely the same material everywhere.  If you have gotten a textbook and it isn’t helping then the problem is that your child doesn’t know how to “read” and apply the text and class notes.  Some kids have trouble pulling what is salient out of a larger discussion/text, some kids have trouble applying it, some kids have trouble moving between abstract patterns and real number problems. Other problems that present in Alg II - poor algebraic manipulation skills, poor fundamental computation skills in fractions or exponents or roots, weak math fact recall, poor organization of work.

Another very common problem is that students don’t corect their homework fully and understand their mistakes. Make sure your child is checking every. single. homework. answer & understanding and correcting her mistakes.

Get a tutor that comes weekly on Wed. Tutor should help review previous 2 days of homework, help student with that night’s homework and help identify what is important to memorize for test and how to do processes. [/quote]

It's hard to correct homework when there is no answer key. The answer keys are posted days later often Wednesday/Thursday night.  Often the answer keys have errors in them too which makes it harder.  The class also doesn't follow a textbook so she has to figure out what the concept is called in whatever textbook she's using (we have several).  Sometimes she can't find the answer in one textbook and has to look at others.  Other times it's Khan Academy that helps.  It's just really minimal information.[/quote]

Are they going over the homework in class?  Maybe the teacher doesn’t want the kids to be changing their answers before they’ve had a chance to go over the work in class so the teacher can see what kind of mistakes are being made. Then the teacher can plan how to teach and how quickly to move through topics by seeing how well the students are grasping the material through class lessons.

If the kids can look at the answer key and change their answers before class, the teacher can’t see how well they are learning the material. It does the student’s learning of the material no good for it to appear that they understand the material better than they actually do. 
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