teaching HS at home.

[Guest Missah]

i am trying to teach my 15 year old dd at home. We have a tutor in reading and for math. I want to help boost her skills currently at a 2-3 grade level in math? and a 4th grade level in reading and has come a long way with reading skills. Tutor for math says she is not going to make it if she does not get fractions or dec. does anyone have any idea's. I want to be her teacher... Is there something out there I have not seen for curriculum?:confused:http://www.welltrainedmind.com/forums/images/smilies/confused.gif

[hsmamainva]

You could look at Math-U-See.

 

Perhaps the manipulatives would help her to "see" and understand the fraction and decimals?

 

Here's their website: http://www.mathusee.com

 

Another option could be the Key to series of math books. I'll send a link to those, too.

 

http://www.rainbowresource.com/search.php?sid=1276174990-1777131

 

These inexpensive books cover one skill at a time. So you could buy a book for just fractions and just decimals.

 

Another option to consider (and run this by the math tutor as well) is Teaching Textbooks Prealgebra. If you look at the table of contents, the first 67 lessons are a review of all basic math concepts -- adding, subtracting, multiplication, division, fractions, decimals, etc.

 

http://www.teachingtextbooks.com/v/vspfiles/tt/PreAlgebra.htm

 

Hope this gives you a starting point...and welcome to the boards!

[merry gardens]

... Tutor for math says she is not going to make it if she does not get fractions or dec. does anyone have any idea's. I want to be her teacher... Is there something out there I have not seen for curriculum?...

If your child need special work on fractions and decimals specifically, you might try setting aside formal "curriculum" and instead focus on play and real life examples of fractions and decimals.

 

I saw a fraction game with cardboard pizzas like this one. http://www.lakeshorelearning.com/seo/ca%7CsearchResults~~p%7CDD847~~.jsp I thought about getting it, then decided real pizzas would be more fun! (You can buy several cheap, little pizzas and bake them all at once. Slice the pizzas, demonstrating half, quarters, eighths, etc. Added benefit: you cook lunch or dinner in the process. The sensory aspect of touching, seeing, smelling and even tasting & eating real food might boost her understanding.

 

Money is a common everyday way to use and explain decimals. A penny is .01 of a dollar and 100 pennies equals a dollar. Ten pennies=one dime and ten dimes= one dollar. You can play with real money and use a white board to practice writing the value in decimals. Also point out decimals it on prices of items in stores.

 

If you want some special ed curriculum about these things, it's available. It's often in the form of games, like the cardboard pizza game I mentioned. Here are some other special ed catalogs you can search for some ideas http://www.lakeshorelearning.com/seo/f%7C/Assortments/Lakeshore/ShopByCategory/mathematics/fractionsdecimalspercents.jsp and http://www.rempub.com/

Edited June 10, 2010 by merry gardens