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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]One of my kids was similar. I dug around and realized she just didn't have a solid, fluent grasp on place value and math facts (probably at least in part because her school has gone all in on the conceptual/Jo Boaler approach) She knew them-ish, but was having to really still think through basic calculations which was slowing her ability to really move forward. We went in the opposite direction of school recommendations for practice (things like ST Math, other apps) and went to back to paper math. We started with Singapore Math and then switched back a few grades and just had her work through the Kumon Workbooks when it became apparent that she just wasn't fluent. Now she's rolling along and ahead because the basics are automatic. [/quote]

This is me. I sometimes need math for my work, and every time it’s like I have to start from elementary math again and kinda conceptually figure everything out again. Like literally I have to teach myself what a logarithm is a couple of times a year.  The other day it was factorials — I was helping my son with a statistics concept that I totally intuitively knew, but I couldn’t fluently read the formula because I had forgotten the notation. If OP can save her daughter from this with some tutoring, it will be a lifelong benefit. [/quote]

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