Ah well if it's teaching how to teach math, that sounds like a worthwhile class. Not really a "math" class though. Does she want some higher math this semester? Is she getting bored? I would afterschool if she wants to. But if she doesn't, I wouldn't be completely opposed to a bit of a break.

Your kid is crazy smart. Why is she in a "math for educators" class? That's not the right placement. You want the full calculus sequence, and differential equations. Has she already done those? If I read correctly, she has to have it for her second degree goal? She might be able to sub some math from the biology sequence for the math from the education sequence. She should ask the department or an advisor or someone if she can do that. They may not overlap on paper, but they may overlap "with permission". If you can't get any traction going that route, I do have a suggestion for some fun college level math that you could afterschool with. The most challenging but "fun" math I ever took in college was Graph Theory and Combinatorics. It's brain bogglers on steroids, and also where you learn about the math problems that still haven't been solved. :)

If it's not high school, then the grades don't matter yet. This is a good time for them to learn how to deal with getting a lower grade. Figure out a way for your kid to learn from it now, before the grades count. Plenty of things in life will be unfair and demoralizing, they need to learn how to overcome being demoralized and come out on top.

I just teach it. That's the point, right? That they learn it somehow? If I can teach it, then I do. I won't give answers though, I try and teach the concepts and examples, but make them figure out the homework problem for themselves.

My daughter uses Everyday Math at school, and we do Singapore at home. And yes it definitely seems like Everyday Math is waaaaaay behind Singapore Math. I could have written your OP. This year, my daughter is in second grade, and in school they still have only done single digit addition and subtraction, and are currently learning about measuring things with a ruler. At home, she just finished Singapore 3A where she learned double digit multiplication and long division, with both regular numbers and decimals (as money). It's ridiculous. It drives me batty because the rest of the curriculum at her school is terrific, it's just the math that is soooo behind. The only plus is that my daughter tells me that Everyday Math is really fun, not all that boring, and it's useful as a review.

Just wanted to chime in - this is true. Make sure you tell the psych beforehand your intentions, and then they can just give you results on a piece of paper to do with what you wish, without reporting to anyone else. You can tear it up and throw it away, you can leave it in your desk drawer forever, or you can pull it out down the road when you decide you need it. It's a bit pricey. But it's worth the piece of mind.

Also try Hooked on Phonics. My son was recently diagnosed with ASD, although without any learning delays. When he was 4, his language comprehension was horrible, but he could label pictures like a champ. I jumped on the visual strength and got hooked on phonics. We used the video, the workbooks, and the iPad app, altogether, and added Bob Books. Within 4 months of doing 20 minutes a day he started decoding words. For the next 8 months he could decode words that he didn't understand. Then I started focusing on learning what each word meant as he learned to read it, using lots and lots of phonics readers and pictures and actions. It was so much easier for him to learn what a word meant when he could LOOK at the word and the associated picture/action, as opposed to just hearing the word in context. Now at age 5 he's literally reading AND comprehending on a 1st grade level, and decoding at a 2nd grade level. His speech has also improved greatly, he now uses sentences and pronouns, etc. I honestly think learning to read has helped him learn how to speak better. He also does ABA therapy, although we are now down to an hour every other week.

My first was a precocious talker. My second had maybe 1 word when we were coming up to 18 months. I didn't even wait for the 18 month appointment for the pediatrician to express whether or not he was concerned, I went ahead and referred him to Early Intervention for speech therapy. Good thing I did too. We discovered right around his 3rd birthday that he had Childhood Absence Epilepsy (where he was having tiny seizures that lasted only 2 or 3 seconds and just looked like he was daydreaming, but it was happening over 100 times a day). By that time all of the intensive speech therapy we had him in had helped his brain re-wire around the damage, and now at age 5 he talks just fine, and reads at a 2nd grade level. But if we had not started speech therapy a year and a half before a diagnosis was possible, he would be much worse off than he is now. I read in a book (I think it was the Einstein Syndrome), that at 18 months, 75% of kids with speech delays are absolutely fine, just developing speech a little slow. 25% of kids with speech delays at 18 months have underlying causes. And about half of that 25% would benefit HUGELY by starting speech therapy right away. But that at 18 months, it's practically impossible to know which category your child fits in - you just have to hope you guess right. So, if you have any doubt at all, go ahead and get an eval and some therapy. Because if your kid is in the 75%, then it won't hurt. But if your kid is in the minority where it really matters, like my kid was, it will make a world of difference.

We do Singapore at home. The short answer is we don't get tears anymore because math afterschool is habit. My DD is in 2nd grade, working on SM level 3 at home. What I do is I make sure she has gotten everything else done first (actual homework which is generally done in after care, piano practice). Then we set the timer for how long I want to spend on math, and we work until the timer goes off. (If she's working on an exercise but didn't finish it yet, I send it to school with her the next day as "homework" to do in aftercare.) Immediately after finishing math in the evening she gets dessert (or some bubblegum if she's full) and 30 minutes of iPad time before bed. She does better if I'm sitting at the table with her. So I sit down with her and teach her the lesson, and then when she starts her practice, instead of getting up I have her brother come to the table and I work with him for a while, while still sitting next to her. She just needs me to *be* there if you know what I mean.

I say pass the bean dip. I'm lucky though. My family is generally of the opinion that we are kicking butt as parents with all the afterschooling, and that we are giving our children a huge advantage. And my cousins who also have kids usually ask things like "what program are you using, and where can I buy it?". I imagine it's a lot harder to cope if your family doesn't have the same type of drive that we do.

I have a second grader. School homework consists of spelling words, reading, and math fact practice. My kid loves math and wants to do more of it than they do in school, so I teach her Singapore a level ahead with CWP and IP, plus anything else fun thrown in like a bit of Miquon and Beast Academy (usually during the summer). I have her do a page a day of Vocabulary Workshop (easier to manage than Wordly Wise), and she has to practice piano. We also have a subscription to Dreambox math which she plays on the weekends. We listen to Story of the World in the car. Over Christmas break I'm hoping to build a computer with her.

On nights that we only have time for one thing, they have to practice piano. On nights that we only have time for two things, my 5yo has to do phonics, and my 7yo has to do math. On nights that we have time for everything, I add math to my 5yo, and vocabulary to my 7yo. Reading is an automatic part of bedtime routine.

I taught my son letter names and sounds at the same time, along side teaching animals and their sounds. So it kind of went like this "cows say moo, and B says buh". He understood that very well, and had all the names and sounds down pat by age 3. He didn't find it confusing. You could try that.

Can he get an interpreter? I taught some 101 level classes in college when I was a grad student, and I had a deaf student in my class, and she had an interpreter for class times who would do sign language for her. I also gave her notes before class, but she did come up and ask me for them specifically (she was a real sweetie).

Genius.