Dd is struggling with maths and it’s ruining school life.

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Dd is 10 and has always struggled with Maths. Only recently she has learnt all her times tables. She’s scoring 3/4 out of 15 on tests etc. Most evenings she spends crying about it and how she just doesn’t understand it. I rang the school last week and they haven’t contacted me back. I’m going to chase it up today.

I just don’t know what to do anymore. She’s had a lot of help at school where they take her out and spend 1on1 time.

She’s fab at everything else but it’s just maths 😒

I was dx with dyscalculia at the age of 41 at B'ham university, after being the Mathematical Village Idiot (according to my highly mathematical family), from v. young.I can't see any logic in number sequences and using a calculator throws up its own problems - I'll reverse numbers, so,for instance, 21 becomes 12 and I just don't see it.
Flip side is that my English and spelling (tho probably not in this post is a strength and I'm the go-to person in my family for writing dissertations,etc. for them.So the Village Idiot ain't so idiotic after all, then
Knowing x tables - I learned by 7 x table by rote as a punishment once as a child, being made to stand on a table in the classroom during lunch break until I got it right.And I still remember it. And I still have dyscalculia.
And I still count on my fingers, mostly. Quietly, discretely, I count on my fingers.
OP, please be gentle and understanding with her and find her the best help you can.. Please. The struggle to comprehend numbers will be taking up every ounce of her concentration.
For me, while the dx of dyscalculia didn't actually improve my ability to compute, it helped enormously when I was 'labelled' as such and that took pressure off me.
Love to your daughter.

I’m a tutor so I would obviously say go down that route!
Pm me if you want some resources and websites that might be useful

If she knows her times tables she probably doesn't have dyscalculIa

Not true actually. I have it, know my times tables but just can't do anything with them. I can count up in 6s or what have you but if you asked me to start dividing or gave me a random 6 time 7is what? Question, I couldn't answer without actually counting up to that point.

didyousee bears out my observation.

Yes didyousee that's what I said.

@larlarland see my next post

@TeenTimesTwo could you message me please? Im in hampshire. I also have a 10 year old who I'm pretty sure has dyscalculia. She has some intervention in school but she doesn't seem to be progressing at all.

Thank you all!! Iv emailed the school. I contacted them last week and was promised a call back but nothing. Iv looked at tutors and it’s around £35 an hour. I’m going to contact a few. She can’t tell the time yet either. She gets distracted so easily. She doesn’t seem to “help herself” like she will know she has to do something but put it off doing.

I have dyslexia so I think she might have that. I mean she’s doing well in other lessons but just barely the average.

She’s absolutely amazing and I’m so worried she will end up like me, I hated school and ended up skiving most days. Ended up having her at 16! And that’s the worst fear for me.

How are you at maths? Is there anything that you can help her with?

My ds has a tutor for English, he was behind at maths, but just giving him 10-12 additions/multiplications/divisions every day, making it part of his routine, really boosted him in terms of ability. He struggled with number bonds, simple addition going over the tens (15+7 etc) and recall in times tables. Just having these a bit tighter under his belt helps a lot.

If she’s not retaining information and getting 3/15 in tests yet strong in other areas I would get her tested by an educational
Psychologist.