I need to vent! Practicing multiplication math facts with one of my daughters is going to be the death of me! I think I remain patient 99% of the time that we regularly practice, but I suppose she can since my frustration. She’s been working on math facts almost the entire school year. She’s passed time tests for each number individually but when we review them all together she …she…blanks???doesn’t focus???has a brain freeze???I don’t know!!!
My other two were done with their “stuff” and were watching TV, so we moved to the dining room to go through math facts. Hearing the TV was too much of a distraction so we moved upstairs. Still it was difficult for her to focus. I know with some of them she knows the answer. Seriously how can she not know 2 x whatever?
I’m told it’s all about repetition. I’ve been told to pull out the facts your child doesn’t know well and only introducing those one at a time along with the ones they do know well.
I’m beginning to believe it’s something else. Could there be a memory issue? A multiplication learning disability? How can she know them, then not know them, when we’ve reviewed these a minimum of five times a week since October?!? I feel like I need as much help as she does!!
Trisha
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Laughing here, although I know the frustration all too well…..from the other end. I still don’t know my multiplication tables. I still find arithmetic difficult, yet I understand logic, geometry, perspective, theorems. Same problem with both of my daughters.
My father was a mathematical genius. I believe there is some sort of disability. I only came to realize this recently.
Be patient. She’s not too happy with herself now. She can always use her fingers(which I still do).