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 Posted: Wed Sep 13, 2006 8:37 pm
Right now I am tutoring someone in pre-algebra. He seems to get it alright, but he's ADD and mildly dyslexic...I think he's having trouble reading the numbers correctly. Does anyone know some good games or activities that might help him along?
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Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 8:54 am
Dyslexia is something he will have to work on/with. Being a math major and mildly dyslexic myself, I know he will struggle. Just make sure he works through the same problem two or three times... I usually won't see it mess up every time.
As for games, I am a fan of doing time trials with friends. Just getting a sheet of basic math problems and doing it as fast as possible. A judge looks at it, if it is right you win, if it is wrong you have to rework it.
If you are needing to get him to learn rules or formulas, make a math memory game. Like on one have the formula and on another what the formula is called... Or a formula on one and the correct answer on the other. (this is how I learned my multiplication table in 7th grade... I was very bad at math before we figured out I had dislexia... especially since mine is worse with numbers and symbols than words.)
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Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2006 12:57 pm
Dr. Leonard McCoy Dyslexia is something he will have to work on/with. Being a math major and mildly dyslexic myself, I know he will struggle. Just make sure he works through the same problem two or three times... I usually won't see it mess up every time. As for games, I am a fan of doing time trials with friends. Just getting a sheet of basic math problems and doing it as fast as possible. A judge looks at it, if it is right you win, if it is wrong you have to rework it. If you are needing to get him to learn rules or formulas, make a math memory game. Like on one have the formula and on another what the formula is called... Or a formula on one and the correct answer on the other. (this is how I learned my multiplication table in 7th grade... I was very bad at math before we figured out I had dislexia... especially since mine is worse with numbers and symbols than words.) I disagree. "Time trials" work for a lot of people but I hate them. I cannot memorize stupid s**t like multiplication tables and what is the point to try anyway. It doesn't help to be able to do it in your head. Teach him the concepts and encourage him to use a calculator to +,-, *, /
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Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2006 8:18 am
I have multipul math related learning disabilities related to mathematics and numbers in general - they're akin to dyslexia.
Seriously your best bet is to do it the same way people teach kids with reading borne dyslexia - get a big piece of paper and cover up various parts of the equation and just cover each portion and then put them back together at the end.
If they have bonafide ADD you just have to stay on task and take breaks frequently - more work for you, and longer time spent, but it'll work better.
Another big part would be if the text has ambigious statements Like equation x + equation u = B ----) Y (though I don't remember anything complicated like that in prealgebra). Just be sure to explain what's happening in the arrow. Also, be sure that if the text takes short cuts, be sure to show what happens (even if it is "add 2 to both sides" and you have to cross out the -2 and add to whatever).
My teaching experience comes from Cadet teaching at the seventh grade level with geography (I did a semester with the "upper level" 7th grade and a semester with the severely LD 7th grade geography class. There is some math in the pretty much awful text we use, and these are the methods that worked for me.
If they don't intend to go on in math just teach him tricks.
For instance I see above a person saying they learned the multiplication table. Just teach him the squares (2x2, 3x3 etc) if they are struggling. Because then you can just go "Ok 9x8.. 8x8 = 64 add 8 = 72". And if they do math enough they'll just learn to see it.
Though prealgebra, at least as I remember it, loves to do stuff like GCFs, LCFs, and stuff like that - this method will be a quick fall back and it'll build confidence which is the main achillies heel of somebody with a learning disability.
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Posted: Sun Dec 17, 2006 3:56 pm
I guess part of the problem is that I didn't do pre-algebra...I don't know what all-in-all that's s'posed to cover that isn't part of Algebra sweatdrop . It feels kinda wierd to have gone to a bad school. Like, my friend's sister went to a private-ish school and did algebra in 6th grade. At my school I did algebra in 9th grade, and since I was good enough at math, they let me take geometry at the same time. So it feels kinda wierd to be teaching someone that young a subject I didn't "take", so to speak.
I've been using lots and lots of charts and pictures and things like that, and he seems to really understand the concept of an equation. He's a little slow working with them 'cos of the dyslexia, but I can really see that he understands it. So I guess the next thing I should make sure he knows is variables in fractions and GCD/LCM?
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Posted: Tue Dec 19, 2006 7:54 pm
Swordmaster Dragon I guess part of the problem is that I didn't do pre-algebra...I don't know what all-in-all that's s'posed to cover that isn't part of Algebra sweatdrop . It feels kinda wierd to have gone to a bad school. Like, my friend's sister went to a private-ish school and did algebra in 6th grade. At my school I did algebra in 9th grade, and since I was good enough at math, they let me take geometry at the same time. So it feels kinda wierd to be teaching someone that young a subject I didn't "take", so to speak. I've been using lots and lots of charts and pictures and things like that, and he seems to really understand the concept of an equation. He's a little slow working with them 'cos of the dyslexia, but I can really see that he understands it. So I guess the next thing I should make sure he knows is variables in fractions and GCD/LCM? Lucky you. I had all that crap lumped in a half a yr
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Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 12:41 pm
REDGallenger I have multipul math related learning disabilities related to mathematics and numbers in general - they're akin to dyslexia. Discalculia? on a mathematics forum...nifty!
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