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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People who come on here recommending Kumon or saying his mom needs to "write up his times tables" really have no idea what having a special needs child means.  Please assume that these ideas have been thrown at the parents hundreds of times, and that they have considered the obvious solutions and problems.  A child with a learning disability or a special need is not going to respond to having his times tables written out, or drilling, with some magical breakthrough or "I get it."  Nor is this a question of his parents' failure to somehow provide him with the basics.  They are not slacking on the job.

Comments like this are not only unhelpful but obtuse.

As for the 70% accuracy question, this comes from the school district's desire to get him to a basic level of competency, which is all they are legally required to do.  A passing grade.[/quote]

Yes, there are kids with learning disabilities who will never master times tables, but there are plenty of kids who have learning disabilities who could master times table if given the right support. It is important to know if the parent or school really tried to have the child master the times tables. That is why it is important to know if the student was in a program like Everyday Math without any drill supplementation. Some kids just have fallen through the cracks. If the student went to Catholic school and used Saxon math and doesn't know the times tables it would be a different matter. Now in middle school special ed. teachers aren't allowed to have a child sit there 20 minutes a day and work just on drill, because the student also needs to be exposed to grade level content.  So if indeed the student was in Everyday Math and the elementary school never stressed or helped the student master times tables, I think it is important to at least try to get a Times Tales DVD, play Timez Attack on the Computer, or go to Kumon. Only if the parent and school already made a concerted effort to have the student learn the times tables, is it time to move on and use other strategies like the use of a calculator. I am not blaming the parents, it is the schools responsibility to teach math, but sometimes parents don't know their child has gaps particularly with math programs like Everyday Math.[/quote]

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