Trying to get aquatinted with basic arithmetic? Oh, only recently. I started having trouble with school math classes when I was about a sixth-grader, but it's never been easy for me. I think that school math was never very good at teaching me the basics or fostering understanding- I sometimes get the impression that they just wanted the students to "get through" the material and move on, instead of trying to help them with an important aspect of their lives and education. Even if I don't love math or even like it as anything more than a means to an end, I recognise that having practical abilities in it is important. Basically what I'm trying to say is that I really want to be able to understand practical math/the basics, and that classroom education (whether the fault was the teacher, the curriculum, or just my difficulty understanding the material) hasn't been much help so far, and in fact might have scared me away from pursuing math on my own, at least until now. (And sorry for the long-winded answer to your question! :))

Be specific, and simple. Got it. (Sorry if my previous posts were too broad, I was kind of overwhelmed!) Thank you for helping to identify the steps that I could take. :)

I've heard of dyscalculia before, and I do exhibit some of the symptoms. But I think I just need to get aquainted with basic arithmetic to the point where it becomes automatic, at least as a first step. I think I might ask for help on this forum in other sections. Thanks for your suggestions. :)

Thank you so much to everyone who helped me! :)

Thank you for asking these questions, here are some answers: My parents are really busy with work and the like, so it's all they can do to drive me and my sisters to school and hope that we learn things. I do have access to people who can help, though. I have been homeschooled before! I don't remember much of it, only that it was a lot of fun to explore our town and that we did "school-in-a-box"- I think it was K-12. I'm not sure if that was particularly *successful* but there is something that has stayed with me even to this day-my mum teaching me how to read herself. She read to me all the time, I memorized books and talked very early, and she did some sort of phonics program and I was reading decent chapter books by the time I was around four. That was a success. I do attend a school right now, though next year I'm looking forward to doing online school,which I hope to supplement with independent studies, as I'm foreseeing that it may leave something to be desired. I don't really have a budget for buying curricula, but I'm great at finding quality stuff for free or cheap, especially when armed with my trusty library card! I'm sure my parents will be willing to help me with buying resources as well. I'm poor at math at the moment. I can't really seem to go beyond the prealgebra level, and I rely on counting fingers and other preoperational sorts of habits. But this site: http://www.themathpage.com/looks promising. And thanks to my mum, my reading comprehension is great, but I have trouble writing formal compositions or stories if they're longer than about a page. I think that apart from free courses at the library and online school, I will be mostly teaching myself. Some things I would like some formal instruction in after I develop more confidence in my abilities with them: piano, visual art, creative writing,singing,etc. I also want to take courses for fun and interaction with other learners. I'm still quite undecided about college.

I found this website and it looks great: http://www.themathpage.com/index.html The courses look really great(and rooted in the classical mindset), and they're FREE! :D I'm going to use this for my own studies. It seems best for remedial math help for older students and adults.

Hi, everyone. I'm new here. I'm fourteen and I found "The Well-Trained Mind" and I am trying to modify the curricula to suit my needs. Any general suggestions or advice for where to post? Thanks. :)