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Math facts and Tactile learners
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My ds10 is really struggling with math facts. He is a tactile learner and likes to use an abacus or connecting cubes to help with his addition and subtraction. But I am at a loss as to how to help him with multiplication facts. We are using Math Mammoth which has worked well…mostly…but now we are stuck. I am not looking to change curriculums if I can help it. I am wondering if there are manipulatives out there specifically for multiplication….or any other ideas to help tactile learners??
Dd8 is a visual learner and Math seems to come so easy to her. She has caught up to her brother and if I don’t find help for ds soon she will over take him 🙁
Any advice or suggestions would be most welcome.
Blessings, Michelle
Have you looked at Learning Wrap-Ups?
Rachel
I don’t have time to track down the link at the moment, but sometimes struggling with math facts can be a symptom of dyslexia (which is actually NOT a learning disability or even medical condition, but simply a result of one hemisphere of the brain being larger than the other – it can mean giftedness in music, sports, art, and building – tactile things).
I’m JUST learning about this, as it runs in my family and I have a dd that might have a few sypmtoms. I “accidentally” read an article about it – it can also result in poor spelling – (that’s what I like to blame!) often students are quite bright, but may hit a wall with reading around 3rd grade and struggle with memorizing math facts, yet solve math equations quite well!
Sorry, that doesn’t help him memorize his math facts, but just thought I’d mention it so you can keep it at the back of your mind in case whatever suggestions you get don’t seem to be working.
Most learners have a dominant way they learn best and also a secondary way of learning. If your child is a hands-on learner primarily, and you know that visual learning is his secondary way, you can combine the two by having him trace the numbers on the flash cards with his finger as he goes through them, and try to make sure the flash cards use bright colors (or make your own with colors). If the secondary way of learning is audio, you could record the math facts, reciting them slowly, and have him play it back, tracing the numbers in sand, shaving cream, or writing them on a whiteboard as he hears them.
I tried everything with my kids. Then I discovered Professor B. I do math facts the way Book 1 suggests. Now facts are not so hard!
I don’t have a lot of time to detail it, but if you are interested I will be glad to help. There was a posting on this a few months ago here…
http://simplycharlottemason.com/scmforum/topic/professor-b-math
HTH!
Thank you ladies. I always appreciate your helpful suggestions.
I looked at the Learning Wrap Ups. They look great and something my ds would benefit from, but I couldn’t find a distributor who would ship to Israel. I ended up finding something similar from the UK and they will ship to Israel, so I’m going to give that a go.
http://www.zoobookoo.com/category/maths-wraps
Professor B looks very interesting but not a financial option right now. I will start with a few little (cheap) changes and see how we go.
I also looked into math dyslexia (dyscalculia) and found it very revealing/enlightening. Ds is a good reader but a poor speller, generally good at Math but stuggles with retaining any math facts. I had not heard of this before, so I think more research on this subject is a must for us.
Blessings, Michelle
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