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Struggling with Maths

pippo

My 6 year old daughter has just been diagnosed with ASD and ADHD.  She is in Year 2 and is statemented with a TA.  She is really struggling with Maths and has switeched off.  Can anyone point me in the right direction of resources I can gove the school, website etc I can get them to look at to help her learn.  They are meeting to discuss but I am not sure they have the knowledge.

 

Thanks for any advise.

  • My little girl is 8 and has always struggled with maths, she had a great teacher in year 2 who really tried to help her, went over things with her one to one but that all changed when she moved up to year 3 and her ability to do maths slipped again. It took many months of me complaining about her struggle with maths before she was finally given a place in an additional maths group, so whilst the rest of the class had art or "quiet time"(i.e reading a book or drawing) she would go and do maths on a 1 to 3 basis. Her scores improved dramatically and she was right back up to average again.

    Are there any extra maths groups she might attend? Also I found downloading maths apps on my tablet and letting her play them helped, she's very visual with her learning but as noted by longman the visual learning in school is somewhat hindered by the group experience(and noise). She's also very into the bbc bitesize website, she finds it fun;

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/

  • Depends what you mean by Maths. At year 2 it is probably arithmetic, that is the sequence of ordinary numbers, adding, subtracting, and maybe some multiplication and division.

    In olden days it was learned by rote, being asked in front of peers, or the whole class reciting. The Coalition Government has got it into their heads that versatility with numbers, what they mean and how they relate, underpins later knowledge. They need to develop instant recall of number relationships and the way to do this apparently is to play social games with wooden blocks, fluffy toys, playground equipment etc.

    It has all gone very visual, counting rows of objects, especially where the objects can be displaced to carry one up into the tens. They have to do group activities that are supposed to get them enthusiastic about numbers. The trouble is this is noisy, busy, social and everything that is hard for someone on the spectrum.

    To be honest the best chance for someone on the spectrum is to use the old fashioned ways of doing addition and subtraction. Also your child may have mastered this already. So aside from the unsuitable learning environment, this banale way of conveying number relationships is probably insulting her intelligence.