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In a message dated 6/10/2002 5:09:10 PM Central Daylight Time,
[email protected] writes:


> There's also a homeopathic remedy called ledum that can be used in
> place of a tetanus shot.
> Sheila

OH Sheila, where can I get this?

Kimberley


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In a message dated 6/10/2002 5:09:10 PM Central Daylight Time,
[email protected] writes:


> Your boys learned all by themselves " how to do talk " - arithmetic is just
> as natural and much easier than learning a language. The biggest mistake
> most new unschoolers make is trying to teach "math" as a monumental task.
> Teach arithmetic and it becomes as simple as 1,2,3!!!
>
> To multiply by tens, open and close both hands rapidly {palms facing you}
> saying 10, 20, 30,----up to 100. Do this as a play thing NOT INSTRUCTION,
> and they will catch on quickly and begin mimicking you.

My daughter is 16 and still has trouble with multiplying....... Basic math
skills are so HARD for her. I do not understand why though......... Could it
be something that they did when she was in PS? I took her out when she ended
2nd grade. I had to reteach her how to read when I took her out because she
had such trouble.

Kimberley


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Fetteroll

on 6/11/02 11:55 AM, lurningathome@... at lurningathome@... wrote:

> My daughter is 16 and still has trouble with multiplying....... Basic math
> skills are so HARD for her. I do not understand why though......... Could it
> be something that they did when she was in PS? I took her out when she ended
> 2nd grade. I had to reteach her how to read when I took her out because she
> had such trouble.

Maybe. Maybe not. Most people have had spelling in school but not all people
spell well.

I suspect that most people who avoid math do so because they have had bad
school experiences. But that doesn't mean there aren't people who just don't
get math. (If you haven't read anything about Gardner's 7 intelligences, it
might give you insight if you did. There should be articles on line and
Thomas Armstrong has written some popular books on the subject.)

What's your attitude towards math? Do you tackle a math problem (adding
scores, figuring out tax and tip and so forth) out loud so she can "see" the
process and without hesitation. Do you ever eagerly tackle a math puzzle?

What is her attitude? Does she balk at it? Does she shut down? Does she want
to learn and has tried a number of ways and just can't get it? It could be
that she's internalized that math is some magic process that she's just
supposed to know how to do. It could be they jumped too fast from memorizing
the tables to doing it. If she didn't catch on that knowing how to do 17+25
was just a matter of having remembered what 7+5 was and wasn't something she
was just supposed to know, then it could be she's shut her brain down
whenver she's seen a math problem.

If *she* wants to try something, there are resources out there. Otherwise
I'd have a positive attitude towards math (or at least a positive "I'm not
going to let this beat me" attitude), solve problems outloud, play games,
perhaps tackle some consumer math that has a purpose behind it, eg, talk
about credit cards (I stumbled on this:
http://score.kings.k12.ca.us/lessons/crcard.htm but haven't really looked
into it yet), the stock market (there's a bunch of links to simulators for
kids at http://www.surfnetkids.com/stockmkt.htm and over to the left is some
other pages of real world money links for kids), income taxes, shopping
bargains and so forth.

Joyce