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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Troll post.[/quote]

What makes you think this isn’t a very real dilemma for lots of families?[/quote]

Then that's even sadder, fretting over a 'B' in middle school.[/quote]

As another poster commented, the 'B', isn't the issue.  It's the mastery or lack of mastery of the concepts that are the foundation for the higher level math concepts.[/quote]

I was a “b’ kid in math.  It wasn’t that I didn’t understand it. I had a really hard time doing the basic calculations correctly. I would understand exactly what I was supposed to do, but would hurry to complete things and make stupid basic math errors. Not all mistakes are misunderstandings, some are just attention and exactness related. I took AP calc in high school my junior year and was fine. I would look closely to see the kinds of things your daughter is missing.  The types of mistakes are important.[/quote]

It is ok to be a B math student, a B is not a bad grade. If a student is working with a tutor and earning a B, then you want to look at the level of math they are in and ask how important it is that they take classes like Calculus. There are a lot of strong math classes, like Stats, that are great for kids who are not STEM focused kids. Look at those paths.

I was a a/B student in regular math classes in HS because of learning issues. I took my three years of required math and stopped taking it. I was forced into higher level math in grad school and earned better grades. I understood the concepts but I couldn’t get the right answers. In my case, the numbers moved around or flipped and I was solving a different problem with wildly incorrect answers. Once I could use a computer program to do the calculations, I was actually strong in math. That said, Honors math was never going to be my thing in HS and I would never tell people that I am good at math. But I know when to use what model, how to properly run the model, how to run the diagnostics, and how to correct issues in the model. Just don’t ask me to write out the proof or explain the proof. [/quote]

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