Our 7-year-old daughter has auditory processing difficulties,
primarily tolerance fading memory, decoding and auditory organization.
She’s in 2nd grade and has been doing well in all subjects except math.
We have practiced and practiced and practiced addition and subtraction facts and still she relies on counting on her fingers to get the answer. We have practiced and practiced regrouping in subtracting 2-digit numbers. She does fine when it looks exactly like a math problem but when regrouping is required in a word problem, it completely throws her off. A unit math test came home on Friday with an “F.” She missed several problems that we have practiced and practiced over and over. I am very frustrated. Could her difficulties in math be somehow related to her auditory processing problems? I would appreciate any advice.
Re: Retention Problems
If you can get your hands on a copy of connecting Math level C and D it will show you some really easy ways to help kids do word problems. It is a whole process for solving word problems. This is the best way to teach problem solving I have ever seen. My students think word problems are easy.
Nan
Is there any way for a homeschooler to get Connecting Math?
Looks like they sell only to school districts. Amazon has some of the workbooks, but what good are they without the teaching manuals?
Mary
Or is it Connected Math? (Dale Seymour program)
It’s been awhile since I looked, so maybe I have the name wrong.
Mary
The short answer is yes. My son is in third grade has auditory processing problems and has a really hard time with problem solving. His problems involve auditory integration primarily and so putting things together is a problem as is generalizing. I see this with math in particular. Also memory weaknesses in general make math difficult. My son will seem to have mastered something and then “forget” how to do something that just a few months earlier he had down easily.
I have also read that multiplication is often difficult for CAPD kids. We bypassed some of that using Math Facts the Fun Way. Then we hit division which was a real struggle. Tons of practice with multiplication has helped.
Beth