Dyscalculia

My 15yo daughter has always struggled with math. She has not memorized many facts. When I had her tested a couple of years ago, the neuropsychologist said to not worry about facts. I focus on concepts, not facts memorization. He also told me that because of her age, I need to focus on the areas of math that will benefit her as an adult, like money, measuring, etc. He said to let her use a calculator. We are also to focus on time management. My daughter does not have a good concept of time.

What we have done the past year or so is to use workbooks that focus on one concept. We have done clocks, calendars, and money. Right now we are using one called menu math and another called grocery cart math. I still have my daughter work on basic operations, but mostly with a calculator. It takes too much time to have her work on a lot of problems mentally, so we lose time that we could be working on learning new concepts. She needs to learn to use money….grocery shopping, banking, etc. She still struggles counting change. She is 9th grade now, and I am not sure what I do all 4 years of high school. I have SCM Pet Store, but will not use that until she has learned more of the basics in money math.

Maybe this was not any help. But I wanted to give you an idea of where you may need to put some focus. You can look for those real life workbooks on Amazon. There is one called Checkbook math that I want to use as well. I just take one book and have her work through that until completed and then I move to another. It helps it stick better.