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Cheese_Crackers posted...

I don't really believe that. True that people have a wide variety of innate mathematical ability, but natural talent isn't everything. The problem is that everyone has little Swiss cheese holes in their knowledge, even math prodigies, and if they happen to miss certain things (like basic algebra) early on, then they're not given the chance to catch up later and are told that they "aren't math people".

TC, I guarantee that it will get easier as she learns more. It's frustrating, but that's the reality of teaching.

Yeah I tried explaining that to her because she was saying she just can't do it. Shes not dumb she just hasnt learned the basics to build upon yet.

I used the analogy of a playing card pyramid. You need to build solid base triangles otherwise you cant build more on top.

It really was hard for her though she was having trouble with even 6x3 even though I was drawing out blocks with dots in them to represent grouping :(

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Can't refute the substance of the post? Ad hominem!