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Help -- my child is drowning in math!
Posted:
Nov 14, 2002 12:13 PM
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My daughter is currently in her 4th year of TERC, and is in the Grade
5 Curriculum, which is being taught by the book. She has consistently
had problems in math over the past 4 years. Her weak areas are:
- doing math efficiently (it takes too long for simple computation)
- accuracy in computation -- addition, subtraction, multiplication,
and division
- place value - with decimals and numbers above 999
- fractions - she cannot compute at all, and has trouble simplifying
them
- decimals and percents - no knowledge
- area and perimeter - no knowledge
- telling time -- analog, of course!
She is fairly competent in long division (we taught her to do it at
home last year - but spent the 5th grade division unit reinventing
division by adding and being told not to use the algorithm! She got
60-70% on the recent multiplication and division assessments.
She is 8 years old, and is in our district's program for the highly
gifted -- her strongest IQ scores were in math! Her Iowa test last
year was low in computation and math concepts. She loved math as a
little girl, and hates it now - she thinks she's dumb in math. She's a
Concrete-Sequential learner, and I question whether this program is
definitely not geared for her learning style.
TERC and CMP are the standard in our district, followed by Core Plus -
our oldest child went through CMP -- so we know that sending our
younger one along hoping she'll "get it" will be a disaster.
Any ideas?
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