Maths homework help please?

[confusednorthner]

Daughter has just produced this due in tomorrow and she's stuck. I couldn't do this 30 years ago and still can't!

I was coming back to say thank you but trying to keep little ones in bed and sort stressy dd. They were given it Friday in form and told it was due in Monday, she didn't have maths Friday and is dyslexic with anxiety issues.

@confusednorthner if she gives it a go now as much as she can. I’d be happy you review her efforts and give some pointers if she has gone astray.

Combination of all these explanations and we are getting there! The visuals or triangles and scales are good.

Thank you soup

If she can solve something like
3x+5 = 5x - 7
then she should be able to do the h/w.

Biggest problem is leaving it until 9:30pm on Sunday!

(x=6)

Here is an example answer written out long hand for 1a.

All the other a questions are essentially the same but adding/subtracting etc both sides.

Hopefully she will find the b parts easier as once she has the formula for a, she just has to swap in the numbers given for the letters.

Oops forgot the pic 😂

Triangles were my go to for formulas.

Serious words have been had about telling me now !! Peace has been restored and I'm writing in diary that she's tried but could he please explain in class. Honestly I've never had a maths issue till now but obviously her brain is wired like mine as it was always my weakness too.

s = vt
s/v = vt/v
She can then cross out any side that has two letters the same.
s= t/v
V= E + RI
V-E=E-E+RI
V-E=RI
V-E/R=RI/R
V-E/R=I

You are a much better parent than me . My own dd would be getting short shrift producing this at this time and wanting help.

Either she didn't pay attention in class or the teacher wanted them to think and try to figure out for themsemves.

@Lweji that’s a very judgemental attitude to take. Neither necessarily has to be the case. The teacher may feel that they adequately explained things in class but not everyone understands things explained the same way, alternatively others in the class may have been being noisy or disruptive affecting the child’s concentration.

Or maybe she just finds maths difficult and despite listening/hearing and paying attention she didn’t understand the premise behind it all. Not everyone is equally able at all things and even children who can learn all these things may learn at very different speeds.

I realise this was last night, so probably a bit late...

But if you google "How to change the subject of a formula" there will be loads of different videos on YouTube to watch.

"Or maybe she just finds maths difficult"

well why leave it until 9:30pm the night before its due???

I haven’t at any point said that I thought leaving it until the last minute is a good idea. I just think that making a sweeping statement such as ‘Either she didn't pay attention in class or the teacher wanted them to think and try to figure out for themselves.’ is judgemental and incorrect.

It's based on what the teacher said to her. And: "She didn't want answers just a point in right direction of understanding."
Of course I could list a thousand other possibilities, but those are the most likely.

As math goes, this is not difficult. She should have learnt what the subject is or have asked when the teacher explained it.
It's interesting when parents prefer the idea that children just find maths difficult.
My first question to my son would have been about what the teacher had said in class or when setting up the homework.
In fact I find the idea that they just find "maths difficult" incredibly judgemental and sets them off for life. My most likely alternatives weren't judging her capacity, but "finds maths difficult" does.
Maths is something that they should be able to understand by paying attention and with some effort.

Being completely stumped by a set of homework is not normal if it has been taught in class and she didn't raise questions during it, and thus my opinion that...

.One child might need visuals to understand
I.E. each side of the equation needs to balance. That what you do to one side you do to the other.
That a fraction is like a cake. The bottom is how many pieces and the top how many pieces you can have .
Some children need to be shown.
With all the long hand bits shown,
Some just understand straight away.
But teachers do not have time to talk to each child at the time of the first lesson, so homework is used to highlight if the child got it, or needs more help.
Once you finish fire out how your child learns, then you can help them see it their way.

@Lweji I too have many possible reasons not only finding maths difficult.

And I agree that giving up on kids and concluding that they ‘just find maths difficult’ is harmful. That happened to my sister and you’re right it did set her up on a bad track in life of assuming she just couldn’t do things. BUT that doesn’t counter act the fact some children DO find maths a lot more difficult than others. And what is more even able children can, during the class, think that they are understanding what is going on but in fact be wrong. My son for example is top tier in maths and generally able but there have been one or two topics where he has misunderstood a fundamental premise and based on that been completely stuck. He didn’t ask for extra clarity in class because he thought at that point that he understood but when faced with the homework and discovering that the method he thought was correct was in fact impossible with the figures before him realised he didn’t know where to start.