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bloodsong1Now we've known for a while IDK has a learning disability, and the school is finally wising up to this fact. What kind of disability, we don't know and I've finished my part of the paperwork to proceed. We'll see how Vogonish the NY school system is.
Today there was a time word problem. How much time between two events, one ending at 11:45 am and one starting at 1 pm. IDK and Wolf had such a hard time with it they gave up and waited for me.
I had him solve it with a simple breakdown of time. He answered the question "75 minutes". No matter how much I prompted him, he would not say "1 hour & 15 minutes."
The child honestly does not get the concept of multiple ways to say the same thing. 75 minutes = 1.25 hours = 1 hour, 15 minutes. He doesn't get that. He can get to 75 minutes by adding. He can get to 120 minutes by adding. But 2 hours? No.
We've had the same problem with writing sentences for spelling assignments. He knows what he wants to say, but he's lousy with basic sentence structure. Verb tenses? No. I'm correcting him, not only with writing, but with speech. "You has." "No, you have."
This extends into solving problems. Word problems break his brain. Subtract this from this, sure. X gives Y Z, what's left? Blank look.
All my fellow parents, any suggestions?
Today there was a time word problem. How much time between two events, one ending at 11:45 am and one starting at 1 pm. IDK and Wolf had such a hard time with it they gave up and waited for me.
I had him solve it with a simple breakdown of time. He answered the question "75 minutes". No matter how much I prompted him, he would not say "1 hour & 15 minutes."
The child honestly does not get the concept of multiple ways to say the same thing. 75 minutes = 1.25 hours = 1 hour, 15 minutes. He doesn't get that. He can get to 75 minutes by adding. He can get to 120 minutes by adding. But 2 hours? No.
We've had the same problem with writing sentences for spelling assignments. He knows what he wants to say, but he's lousy with basic sentence structure. Verb tenses? No. I'm correcting him, not only with writing, but with speech. "You has." "No, you have."
This extends into solving problems. Word problems break his brain. Subtract this from this, sure. X gives Y Z, what's left? Blank look.
All my fellow parents, any suggestions?
