Steve responds to Danielle’s question from the forum,
I have three wonderful children, ages 4, 7, and 9.I am currently using
Saxon Math2 and 3 for my 7 and 9-year olds. My seven year old is going into the third level ofSaxon, and is stong in her addition, but not subtracting skills, (even single digits), and my 9-year old is very strong with his addition, semi-strong with subtraction, weak on multiplication, and yet, he gets division. I don’t get it! I’ve done everything thatSaxonhas told us to do, and yet, I feel like they are both (particularly him) weaker on some of thier basic skill-sets.If I switch over, where do I start? Am I going to be at a disadvantage because they have not done REALLY long addition and subraction, like you get to in the latter part of both of your first books?Part of my dilema is that I just started homeschooling in January, and they were in 6 different schools prior to that. You can see why this is such a pickle. Thank you for responding!
That’s it for the first round of questions from the forum, from the responses I’ve gotten this has been a success and we will be doing more in the weeks and months to come. Thanks to everyone who asked a question and if you would like to ask one yourself visit our forum.
This video helped me so much for our child’s placement! Alpha it is for my 9 year old!!! We’ve been homeschooling for 11 years and we’ve never had a child that just did not get math. People are raving about Math U See. I can’t wait to use it. Our daughter loves to “see” math when she is working. This will be just the ticket.
Thank you!
Marianne
Dyscalculia! I have just found this word and description. I can’t believe that I have not seen it before. This is EXACTLY what my son (and I) have been struggling with for the past 5 years! He has no problem at all in learning the concepts but, no matter how much we drill and drill the math facts do not stick to his brain! Do you have any suggestions?