Hi all,
I'd like to gather opinions and maybe suggestions on what, if anything, I should do. I've been sorting out DDs reading and left the maths up to the school. I'm now thinking I should have been more on the ball and need to intervene in some way.
DD is in year 4 and scored 105 in her Y2 maths SATs and was at the expected level. Her comprehension and reading are good ( I think, oh!). All good with maths I assumed.
Every time I see a teacher I am told DD needs to be more confident in her maths ability. She will ask for individual help, receive it, then knows what she has to do.
This worries me as I was also a compliant, good girl who could read well and was considered intelligent but considered to lack confidence in maths. I got to secondary school and it was discovered I completely lacked the basics. My primary school had made assumptions based on my character not on my abilities. I got a C in GCSE by the work of the amazing secondary teacher but I lack the basics and this is still a problem. I couldn't do the sciences I wanted to do.
DD says that the teacher explains maths and DD thinks so hard about it that she can't hear what the teacher is saying anymore. I wonder if there is a working memory issue-maybe DD doesn't understand concepts enough so has to really think hard and can't concentrate on too many things?
I am only concerned now as the teacher gave DD CGP Y4 maths 10 minute Weekly Workouts for homework. We have done two tests so far and DD doesn't understand them. These tests are at the beginning of the book and are supposedly going over year 3 work.
So far the things she doesn't understand are;
. That + is opposite to -
Can't work out .......- 25=13
. Counting in 5s: she thinks you have to start from 5 and that it will always be 5, 10, 15... Even if the question asks you to count in 5s starting at 7.
. Maths questions in written form, especially where there is more than one step to the question. She needed to find out how long something was then work out that it needed to be divided and by how many. She got the length and couldn't understand why that wasn't the answer.
She will use number lines when there must be a quicker way of working things out.
I will of course talk to the teacher but I know any deficiencies will need to be sorted by me rather than the school. Should I be worried? Does it sound like there is a problem? Work books don't help if I can't explain to her what she should be dong, and I can't.
Should I get her a tutor? I don't know about tutors, it's an area where people cram for public and other private schools or super-selective grammars and I suppose I'd always imagined that's what tutors around here did. That's not what I am looking for, I'd like someone who could find the gaps and get her up to speed so she can carry on with school maths.
Does that even make sense or am I worrying over nothing?
Thanks !
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papermover · 01/04/2018 12:47
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