Anonymous wrote:C or lower is basically an F by previous year standards. You need to act now, tutor, boot camps, quit all activities, ground her etc... she is destroying her future.

You would ground a child who is trying very hard and struggling, as OP says?

What exactly are you punishing? That's no different to me than grounding a child who can't hit a certain time in a foot race or can't master a difficult piano piece despite trying. I'm not saying do nothing, but punishment? She's not DOING anything wrong.

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Anonymous wrote:Alot of kids who struggle in Algebra never really mastered some of the basic middle school math (proportion/ratio/fractions, etc.) Might be worth reviewing some of that with her. My understanding of research on kids who don't do well in Algebra/Cal is that many of them have some underlying misconceptions about basic math that get in the way. Focusing on the actual algebra may not be the answer. Hopefully a good tutor will understand that but I would consider it....

Khan videos are quite good.

As a former math teacher, I agree with all of the above.

This right here.^^ I'm a former math-bomber who somehow went to college and had to re-learn a bunch of stuff now that I'm somebody's mother. I had some holes in my fundamentals that really hindered me from learning.

Dalby Tutoring (you have to go to them in Mclean) was good.

C or lower is basically an F by previous year standards. You need to act now, tutor, boot camps, quit all activities, ground her etc... she is destroying her future.

Anonymous wrote:Pp MD requires 4 years of math because that is what most colleges require.

OP hopefully the tutor will make a difference. My 11th grader has been going to a weekly math tutor for over a year. It has been very helpful and he's gotten As in math since going to the tutor.

Can you recommend a math tutor?

Some kids really struggle with algebra. I sure did. Abstract math is tough and it takes longer to click for some than others. Let the tutor help and DDs brain work on it a bit. I'm sure it will be okay. HUGS.

I had to take a remedial algebra class freshman year of college - i finally "got" it and almost got an A in the course-
I honestly don't think that part of my brain was fully developed in hs- and i was finally ready 4 years later

I took Algebra twice (and so did my daughter) and went onto major in finance, and now have a career in finance. Sometimes it takes a bit to click. Don't put to much pressure on her. She might need to repeat it to get it to sink in.

Do not worry. She can get a STEM job if she wants. Just hang tough and persevere, with whatever grades. I know. We have lots of these at work. It doesn't take a genius to work in STEM.

I was always terrible in math, all the way through high school. The best day of my life was learning that I didn't need to take any more math in my senior year of high school.

Twenty years later I decided to apply to graduate school and needed to take the GRE. I had to teach myself math -- algebra, geometry, fractions, percents, ratios, etc. all over again. Actually it felt like the first time I'd ever see the stuff; that's how little I retained from high school. To make a long story short, I ended up getting a decent GRE math score -- enough to get me into a PhD program (not in math, but still...).

Moral of the story, I guess, was that when I needed to learn math as an adult for my own purposes I did so. Until then, it was rough. Still, like others here have said, even with poor math grades I managed to get into a decent college (Ivy League, actually). So there's definitely hop for your DD.

I failed math in 8th grade. It turns out I needed glasses but didn't figure it out until a year later. I thought everyone saw the board blurry and were just able to listen better. I eventually got glasses and was an economics major (lots of math) from a top school.

Well, I use math through differential equations regularly...and sometimes vector calculus is my daily job. Math is the language of science.

I'm a forester, and believe it or not, geometry is actually very useful in my field. So you never know.

I never really liked math and am in communications now but the one thing I do use all the time is algebra. Show her how ratios are really useful IRL, how you can figure out percents and missing numbers using algebra. Algebra is useful-- geometry on up is not useful for most people, IMO.

At the college tours we've been on, they have said not to worry if the child's h.s. freshman grades weren't the greatest, that what they looked for was a trend upward in the later semesters. Unfortunately, it will affect her GPA, though. It sounds like you are doing what is necessary, and if she doesn't end up with a great grade, maybe she could retake the class in summer school.