Learning Different 13yog and Math
blestmomma
Thank you to those who took time to respond. :) I understand that
just everyday life presents itself with numbers and problems that
causes us to have to reason. That is how I always saw it. To me that
is plenty of math. But my daughter is very goal, schedule, and text-
book type focused. The only time I ever bought her a text book was at
her request. She wants a high school diploma and be done with Algebra
2 by the time she is 15. I don't agree with her, I think she is
misguided by false notions. We have talked about this at great length
over the years and she still wants to be and live and COMPLETE things
quickly. What am I to do? The only thing I can figure out, is to
suppot her. How do I help her get to where SHE WANTS to be in the
next 2 years if she is so far behind? Anyone have a situation like
this? :)
Shannon
just everyday life presents itself with numbers and problems that
causes us to have to reason. That is how I always saw it. To me that
is plenty of math. But my daughter is very goal, schedule, and text-
book type focused. The only time I ever bought her a text book was at
her request. She wants a high school diploma and be done with Algebra
2 by the time she is 15. I don't agree with her, I think she is
misguided by false notions. We have talked about this at great length
over the years and she still wants to be and live and COMPLETE things
quickly. What am I to do? The only thing I can figure out, is to
suppot her. How do I help her get to where SHE WANTS to be in the
next 2 years if she is so far behind? Anyone have a situation like
this? :)
Shannon
Michelle/Melbrigða
On 8/17/06, blestmomma <blest.momma@...> wrote:
must do for herself, what about hiring a tutor? There always seem to
be tutor type people around homeschool groups - former teachers who
are now homeschooling or dads who have a knack for a particular
subject. See if you can find someone who can explain algebra in a way
that makes sense to her. In the movie Big (Yeah, I keep bringing that
up LOL!) Tom Hanks' character is at this dinner party and the host's
son keeps popping in asking for help with his school work. Algebra
comes up and Tom's character (who is just a 13yo boy trapped in a 30
yo body) says, "Oh, I know math" and he goes and shows the boy how
doing algebra is a lot like baseball. "ding ding ding ding ding"
suddenly it all makes sense. Algebra never made sense to me until
someone showed me how it worked in a physical way (using blocks to
show me how algebra was just completing sets to make whole figures all
those x's and b's and a's were just the negative spaces)
It also might help your daughter to talk through why she feels that
algebra is important to her. Have you both read the Teenage
Liberation Handbook? Might be helpful and insightful.
--
Michelle
aka Melbrigða
http://eventualknitting.blogspot.com
[email protected] - Homeschooling for the Medieval Recreationist
> How do I help her get to where SHE WANTS to be in theIf this is something that she really wants to do or feels that she
> next 2 years if she is so far behind? Anyone have a situation like
> this? :)
>
must do for herself, what about hiring a tutor? There always seem to
be tutor type people around homeschool groups - former teachers who
are now homeschooling or dads who have a knack for a particular
subject. See if you can find someone who can explain algebra in a way
that makes sense to her. In the movie Big (Yeah, I keep bringing that
up LOL!) Tom Hanks' character is at this dinner party and the host's
son keeps popping in asking for help with his school work. Algebra
comes up and Tom's character (who is just a 13yo boy trapped in a 30
yo body) says, "Oh, I know math" and he goes and shows the boy how
doing algebra is a lot like baseball. "ding ding ding ding ding"
suddenly it all makes sense. Algebra never made sense to me until
someone showed me how it worked in a physical way (using blocks to
show me how algebra was just completing sets to make whole figures all
those x's and b's and a's were just the negative spaces)
It also might help your daughter to talk through why she feels that
algebra is important to her. Have you both read the Teenage
Liberation Handbook? Might be helpful and insightful.
--
Michelle
aka Melbrigða
http://eventualknitting.blogspot.com
[email protected] - Homeschooling for the Medieval Recreationist