Posted on 10/17/2023 6:48:00 AM PDT by devane617
Laura Jackson became seriously concerned about her daughter and math when the girl was in third grade. While many of her classmates flew through multiplication tests, Jackson's daughter relied on her fingers to count, had difficulty reading clocks and burst into tears when asked at home to practice math flashcards.
At school, the 9-year-old had been receiving help from a math specialist for two years, with little improvement.
"We hit a point where she was asking me, 'Mom, am I stupid?'" Jackson recalled.
One day, when having lunch with a friend, Jackson heard about a disorder known as dyscalculia. She later looked up a description of the learning disability that impacts a child's ability to process numbers and retain math knowledge. "I was like, 'Oh my gosh, this is my kid,'" Jackson said.
Nationwide, hundreds of thousands of students face challenges learning math due to disabilities like dyscalculia, a neurodevelopmental learning disorder caused by differences in parts of the brain that are involved with numbers and calculations. There are often obstacles to getting help.
(Excerpt) Read more at phys.org ...
I personally meet a women who has been teaching Junior H.S. math for 10 years. In our conversation I mentioned that in first grade (1960) we were shown how to use an abacus to learn numbers. She did not know what an abacus was!
If you watch more than, “Did she get the right answer?” and look for a pattern in the mistakes, sometimes it's easy to spot.
It seems there is a real neuro difference. The good news is the brain is somewhat plastic, and the earlier these things are caught, the easier it is to do the laborious work of rewiring.
What's frustrating is to see neuro differences but havee parents who think mere behavior mod (aka “discipline”) will solve it.
Dis, Dat and the Udder Ting
Check her home for lead paint and pipes.
Japanese parents chuckle
Oh, boy…. it’s called low-IQ and every generation has a percentage of the population in that category. Unfortunately I fear that percentage is rapidly INCREASING.
Does this mean I have job security? Seriously, though, I don’t think we’ve seen anything close to the worst of consequences of indoctrination vs. education.
Maybe the daughter is just stupid, like her Mom.
Math is racist..
This is because math is absolute, fuzzy logic can’t be applied to math, although the libs are trying.
I have mathematically disproven the theory of fossil fuels. This is the religion of the left.
All things that the left believes can be disproven by math.
This is why math is racist.
Sprinkle in a little DEI, ebonics, and laziness and you have "rasis maff".
it’s maff, yo
Can’t wait to see how it’s treated? You know the answer: your tax dollars, lots and lots of them. (With plenty for the advocates, like Ms. Laura Jackson.)
Oh, and let’s restructure STEM so that dyscacula students are not at a disadvantage. In fact, let’s establish quotas to ensure they are represented in the workplace.
Nothing inspires confidence like knowing quota babies are overseeing the calculations for the new nuclear power plants.
Oh, not to worry. Nuclear power is “problematic,” so just outlaw it. Solar and wind power is the future. There, problem solved.
First screen the teachers.
Check her home for lousy parents.
Check her school for lousy teachers.
And I say that as someone who sucks at math and has to work my glutes off to stay proficient.
I substituted for high school math classes for a while. At the end of the lesson I would pull out a slide rule and ask if anyone knew what it was. To date, no one has known.
Most of these troubled students haven't mastered addition facts let alone multiplication or division. Believe it or not before PEMDAS it was PEMA where students were taught that addition-subtraction as well as multiplication-division were the same thing. After PEMDAS was introduced students insisted on doing multiplication ahead of division and addition before subtraction. I think it was easier to teach PEMA and explain that subtraction was merely the addition of a negative number not a totally different function. I am barely literate in general math myself and have no desire to go deeper. But for those that do, take a look at Tablet Class Math Academy he covers PEMDAS to the absurd. Offers a complete course or just hundreds of free challenges on YouTube.
Send you struggling students to this guy for stimulating problems and explanations to the extreme. Believe it or not repetition is key to grasping math.
It's a 70's Swedish pop supergroup that sings profanity laced hits.
At my son's school, I've seen it written as:
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Calm down folks!
“Numerically Dyslexic” people are everywhere.
You can most often find them in front of you at the “10 Items or Less” register with around 23 things in their cart.
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