Ive reached the end of my tether, I don't know what to do anymore.
DS 11 has always struggled with maths. He was fine up until towards end of year 3. He was in top sets for times tables (very good at memorising, learning by rote).Then a steady decline was noticed by his teacher in the last term of year 3, he just couldn't seem to get problem solving, we spent lots of time going through things with him at home, he would seem to understand it then but couldn't apply it at school.
By end of year 4 he was in bottom sets for Maths. We got him a tutor to teach him at weekend at home, going over everything they were doing in school to reinforce it, still his grades didn't improve.
By year 5 lots nothing hadn't changed. We got him learning support in school so there is close liaison between his extra tuition and his school maths teacher. DS would meet all the learning support targets but still wasn't improving generally with his maths learning. He has done loads of past exam papers just to keep him warm on all topic areas, fractions, division (long and short, percentages etc and he does well in assignments. All maths exams have been failed .
We have just completed year 6, and wary of ds forgetting everything again have arranged two lessons for him.
As of today, ds is unable to do the simplest fractions e.g 2/3 + 3/4, he cannot remember how to do long division, rusty on short, can't do percentages etc and is going into YR 7 in september.
His tutor is perplexed as are we, we don't understand why he cannot remember any of these things which he has done so many times.
He was seen by an Ed Psych back in year 4 who said he has no learning difficulty and was of average intelligence. But clearly there IS a problem with his memory. What can we do? has anyone experienced this?
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IS THERE ANY HELP SUITABLE FOR MY SON - MATHS!
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NatGeo · 30/07/2015 10:54
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