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Ok. Today is a reality check day. I keep thinking if I use the right program, work hard enough, that my kids' LDs will go away. Abracadabra ...no LD. Nope.

 

My 12 year old forgot division. She forgot how to do it. She forgot how to set it up . She tried. She set up every problem backwards.. But even so couldn't remember the basics. This a kid who sailed through Math u see delta which was all division. Now she is working through Saxon. Sigh.

 

My Sweet sophmore said that kind of thing happens to her all the time. She knows how to do a certain language or math thing, but some days the recall just isn't there. She just can't do something she "knows" how to do. She waits until the next day. How is this going to work in real life, or college? Anyone have experience with this? Looks like math will require me sitting next to 12 year old for next few weeks...relearning division and giving some sort of memory reward. Just.So. Frustrating.

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Amen. Amen. Amen. I had a sad little reality check with DS9 today. We've been focusing on learning multiplication for the past few weeks and he's forgotten how to do addition with carrying and subtraction. All subtraction. "Do you take the big number from the little number, or the little number from the big number?" OK, then.  I wish I had words of wisdom or a glass of wine to share with you. Alas, I can only offer  :grouphug:  

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How do we do it? Lots of review and procedure charts. I seriously have a lot of laminated procedure charts. It is exactly as you described - the kid didn't really completely forget, they just can't recall where they stored the info in their brain. Often just looking at a procedure chart for long division or fractions for a couple of minutes will be enough to bring on an "aha" moment and the kid is off and running with the concept. That said, I don't think a program like MUS would work for us without significant tweaking just because it is set up as such a strong mastery program and that kind of forgetting is likely to occur when a concept isn't used for a long period of time.

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How do we do it? Lots of review and procedure charts. I seriously have a lot of laminated procedure charts. It is exactly as you described - the kid didn't really completely forget, they just can't recall where they stored the info in their brain. Often just looking at a procedure chart for long division or fractions for a couple of minutes will be enough to bring on an "aha" moment and the kid is off and running with the concept. That said, I don't think a program like MUS would work for us without significant tweaking just because it is set up as such a strong mastery program and that kind of forgetting is likely to occur when a concept isn't used for a long period of time.

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  • 2 weeks later...

Sorry I missed your reply Geodob. She would see 12/3 and try dividing 3/12. She did forget long division as well, but i was concerned that the set up was challenging. It may have been a language problem. Its time to get her tested to find out which specific LD s she has I think. She has hit a wall with Saxon,so since my orginal post,I now need to sit with her for about 1-2 hours a day working problems and developing stategies to do so. I was just ready for her to be independent in something. I'm just so tired.

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