Gabe and Math

Last week, my son Gabe was still struggling with his math work and in fact did one lesson and got almost half of the problems wrong. So I set one whole morning aside to work with him just on that. I had him read each problem and tell me how he should solve it. Story problems are hard for him. They were hard for me too in school because I couldn't easily determine what functions I had to do to find the answer. So Gabe and I talked through what function we should do and why and step by step he found the answers for himself. I also discovered that for two part problems he wasn't finishing the second part and for fraction work he wasn't turning mixed numbers into improper fractions first. Once we had that all sorted through, he did much better! This was the kind of help grandma gave me, and now I'm passing it on, mostly to Gabe!