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Get the Schoolhouse Rocks video. They put the multiplication tables to cartoons with songs. They helped my daughter along with the second suggestion in the next paragraph from a teacher. I am 52 and grew up with the Schoolhouse Rocks songs and can STILL sing most of them!
A second suggestion is flashcards. A math teacher told me to use all of the ones my daughter knew and add in a few at a time that she didn't know and go through them until she knew the new ones. Some kids just couldn't retain all of the unfamiliar ones at once. Of course, this second suggestion only works if her dyslexia allows her to visually process the individual times table flashcard info. My daughter still didn't know her times tables at the end of 5th grade, so I asked a former secondary math teacher who had been teaching 4th grade for about 10 years. My daughter has an emotional developmental delay of about 2 1/2 years, but is of normal intelligence, (but VERY LAZY when it comes to school work of any type.)
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Hi Robin,
My kids use Teaching Textbooks for math. It works on CD though. I recommend the version 2.0 of them because they are self-grading. You don't need the workbook if you want to just have the computer grade and scratch paper to work problems.
For visuals, I subscribed to "The Great Courses Plus" for 20/month... there are several math programs on there. One that might be helpful is the Mental Math one.
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I also highly recommend Teaching Textbooks (2.0 version) for math!
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04-06-2017, 09:50 PM
(This post was last modified: 04-06-2017, 09:56 PM by musictester.)
I highly recommend Mystery of History for a history program! Lots of pictorial-based activities, which is good.
Art appreciation through LifePac is good- there is a fair amount of filling in blanks, so I'm not sure if that would be a problem or not.
Lapbooking would be great, too. In the Hands of a Child is the program I used- one for each continent, one on art, one on chocolate (always good!),one on holidays, books of the Bible, etc. The Lapbooking approach uses lots of hands-on activities, with explaining things in the students own words, making things, etc.
Blessings on your homeschooling decision!
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Some curriculum we used:
Sequential Spelling (designed for dyslexics)
Math-U-See
Memory Joggers (to cement upper multiplication facts)
Skip Count Kid (multiplication songs)
It's been so long since I was dealing with all this... if I think of something else, I will have to let you know.
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a4tunatemom Wrote:I also highly recommend Teaching Textbooks (2.0 version) for math!
Just be aware that some kids may have a difficult time with TT. Not sure which version we tried, but my daughter hated the amount of visual "noise" going on here. Too much stimulus. Math-U-See may look boring for some, but it's very "clean" and easy to look at. No pictures, no color, none of the busy-ness that a lot of other books have. Made it easier for her to work through.
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dfrecore Wrote:Just be aware that some kids may have a difficult time with TT. Not sure which version we tried, but my daughter hated the amount of visual "noise" going on here. Too much stimulus. Math-U-See may look boring for some, but it's very "clean" and easy to look at. No pictures, no color, none of the busy-ness that a lot of other books have. Made it easier for her to work through.
I agree with this. I've got two users. My youngest loves the audio and over sound stimulation. My oldest OTOH does not; she listens to the lecture and then mutes te sound while she works the problems.
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My 16 year old daughter has some similar issues. We homeschool and it's been a Godsend for her. She's had neuro testing but no LDs were apparent even thought I strongly still believe she has dyscalculia. She does have Generalized Anxiety Disorder and Social Phobia, as well as some executive function deficits. They believe her anxiety seems to hinder her math abilities because she panics when she hits math thats too hard or that she doesn't know.
Homeschooling is such a wonderful blessing because she can grow and thrive academically without the other hindrances of a school setting. Mine is dual-enrolled in community college and is thriving (she had to have an accommodation for public speaking and has to have at least one friend with her).
Not knowing your math facts backwards and forwards will perhaps be a hinderance in the future, but keeping her in a holding pattern does nothing for her development. I would consider Math U See as well. It's isn't graded, so you buy the appropriate level and she won't even know she's very far "behind". And keep putting one step in front of the other. There are HUGE leaps in maturity in these few years ahead and you will see that even if she always sucks at math, she CAN do sooooo well at many other things. You'll be able to find her strengths!
Many blessing to you!
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