Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Multiplication

This is a little update on Betty as she spent most of the morning here.  I’ve been so excited lately about her reading. She is doing remarkably better recognizing words, sounding things out and grasping the concepts of what she is reading. Feeling inspired with her improvement I decided that it was time to tackle math. On her end of semester math test she got a 31%.  She was able to bring me the test and we are trying to work on her weak areas, one of which was clearly long division. As we sat together to see where the confusion was it became clear that she didn’t know her times tables. So I figured that we could back up and start there. But then it became clear she didn’t know the difference between addition and multiplication. She also can’t count by 5’s, 3’s or even 2’s.  The up side is that once she begins to make progress we will really be able to see it!!  

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