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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] This was my kid- her two years of pre-algebra and one year of algebra were very hard. It didn't help that she attended a small private school with a heavy courseload and rampant grade deflation. She got a 79.4 in Algebra 1 last year. She is now taking geometry at a charter school with less math homework and it finally clicked for her (she has an A-). She never got a formal diagnosis, but I read that it takes dyscalculic kids three years to fully learn the math facts that took their peers a year to learn so it makes sense she needed three years of algebra. I would recommend having a tutor help your child with each assignment-last year my DD met with her tutor twice a week and this year she meets with her about once a month. DD has difficulties with basic math (fractions are tricky and she still needs to Google the formulas for volume/area), but her algebra skills are finally up to par. Problems that involved a graph were super difficult for her two years ago, but she now understands them.[/quote]

This is my daughter too, although she was never officially diagnosed with dyscalculia, she had a full evaluation that stated she has trouble with numbers and concepts. She’s never scored higher than low 80’s in her math classes and the pandemic hit her hard because she missed some keg foundational concepts like fractions, number lines, geometry, etc. that we’re still trying to catch up on now. She has to spend wayyyyy more time than her classmates on absorbing the concepts. Now she’s getting tutored 4-5 days a week. It’s rough but necessary and I think it will click for her too.[/quote]

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