Re: Accelerated Math - WOW

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Dianna and ,

It's so nice to hear that your daughters are doing great!

I am continuously praying that my daughter would be able to reach her

potentials too.

She has HFA and LD as well.

Thanks for sharing some tips on how to help them understand and achieve

more, Dianna.

Hope you can share more.

I believe we cannot rely on their teachers/therapists alone. We as

parents should do our part. We can learn from each other.

God bless you both,

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> My Annie who is HFA has a talent for music. She picked up the flute

first

> and excelled at that, then the guitar and then the keyboard. She

wanted to

> do the clarinet but finances wouldn't allow. We are at a stopping

point

> right now. Perhaps later she can continue her talents.

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> Math was pretty easy for her until they got into Geometry. Since I

wasn't

> smart enough to help her with algebra, she lost interest in it.

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> It seems that the more fun I can make learning for her, the better.

When

> learning math, we would make up little rhymes for her to remember the

> multiplication table, like " Eight times eight, drop it on the floor,

pick it

> up it's sixty four " . This worked for those hard ones she had any

trouble

> with. The sillier the better.

>

> With history, I remember pretending I was a red coat marching down the

road

> in a formal column then being attacked by the new Americans. I

started

> waving my arms in the air and yelling " Over here, Over here,We are

here,

> shoot us!!!

>

> She still remembers that lesson to this day, how the Americans acted

more

> like Indian fighters hiding in the trees and bushes and the English

soldiers

> marching in their formal lines.

>

> If she had silly things to remember my doing to help her then, I would

> gladly make a total fool of myself to make sure she remembered it.

Now she

> likes history.

>

> Yesterday, she brought home a writing assignment to compare two

writers, one

> Shakespeare and the other Browning. There was one

other one

> but I can't remember right now who it was. The language they were

written

> in could just as well been written in Ancient Martian. She had not a

clue

> what was being written about. When she read the poems out loud to me

I

> asked her what they were about. She didn't know.

>

> This is a child who's vocabulary words have been modified since day

one.

> She was only required to learn about half the words the rest of the

class

> was learning. Now they want her to read and understand a Celtic

dialect

> poem????

>

> An e-mail was sent to her teacher and the LD teacher as well. We

shall see

> what the outcome is on this one.

>

> Sorry this is so long. What started out to be a brief answer to your

> question about accelerated math and it just kept growing.

>

> Dianna

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> >Forgive me if this has been gone over already in this group but would

> >many of you say that your daughter with a diagnosis of autism was or

is

> >accelerated in math compared to her peers? THANKS!

> >Phil

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