Math LD

I would private message victoria and ask if she can forward you suggestions. Click on memberlist and she is member 11.

She doesn’t always have time but will help as much as possible.

This is me, victoria, and thanks for the ad. Yes I will be happy to help in any way possible.
I have been not replying to general help-me-with-math posts for a while because I just got burned once again by somebody who didn’t actually want help when it was given.
Tell me either here or in an email what you’re trying to remediate, and I’ll throw out some practical nitty-gritty suggestions. Of course, all learning of anything valuable takes time and work; I don’t have any easy answers or magic wands, just methods that work on the slow but sure basis.

There’s no magic bullet — but we’ve got lots of ideas here :-) Read the past posts (go to “LD OOnline ForumIndex and drop in on the math board for more) for a handful or five… and ask queswtions :)

http://www.dyscalculia.org/

Renee Newman is the lady who runs this web site. She is a very fair researcher on math ld, has herself a phd and everything. I bet you could e mail her or something, there, you know? There are, as I am sure you guys are well aware, numerous research articles coming out of Germany on math ld also…articles that are neuropsychological in basis…math ld is very much neuropsychological in origin a lot of the time…underdeveloped parietal lobes and all of that. That is why it is sometimes hard, even as nice and intelligent as all of the gals and guys on this web site are (Sue and Victoria I am complimenting y’all) to just get information on how to enhance your learning of mathematics if you have mad wicked math ld. However, it does not ever hurt to ask questions of the actual educators who post here. I am wondering, for the person who started this thread, if you are a neuropsychologist or what exactly? Just curious.

That’s when it is a real LD (like yours) — most people aren’t. (Kinda like most people aren’t *really* disorganized, and aren’t *really* klutzes — they have no idea what it would be like. If you haven’t fallen out of your chair tying your shoes at least once, you don’t qualify as a klutz unless, of cousre, you’ve been wearing Velcro shoes all along and then we *might* consider letting you in the club…)

Sue: does breaking my ankle in my own front hall — no, never on the ski hill, I couldn’t be that typical — or breaking my toe in a sidewalk crack on my way TO the dance, stone-cold sober — allow me into the klutz club?

As far as math advice, just “remediating a math disability” is a bit too big and unfocused a question.
What level of math? What kind of class and school? What are the problems the student has with it? How does the student approach the work? Who is trying to help and how much time is available for help?

Let us know a bit more and we’ll try to gove some real and doable advice.

How weird is that, for 6 months I have thought that the person behind dyscalculia.org was a MAN… Wow… thanks… :P

no ellyodd, she is not a; “Man…Bay Bee!” that is a lady doing all of that.