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She needs to find someone who can help her regularly. Does the teacher offer help before or after school? Does the school offer any help?
If you can't get help in those places, there are websites that offer online math help. (It's tempting for me to do it here, but it isn't what this forum is for.)
Did she bring home the book that this was the homework for? If so, that equation should be on the pages covered that day. Did she take notes in class? If so, that should be in her notes.
this is just one of the 200 questions from her maths summer package. her teacher is excellent and she always help but she can not be reached at this time as school is closed. No, she did not bring any text bk.
this is just one of the 200 questions from her maths summer package. her teacher is excellent and she always help but she can not be reached at this time as school is school. No, she did not bring any text bk.
B = P/R looks like a percentage problem. I always taught it percentage = rate x base, and then demonstrated the ratios, which also includes R = P/B. That sounds like an eighth grade math objective.
She needs to find someone who can help her regularly. Does the teacher offer help before or after school? Does the school offer any help?
If you can't get help in those places, there are websites that offer online math help. (It's tempting for me to do it here, but it isn't what this forum is for.)
----before and after class---
Makes me wonder what that teacher and students are doing during class time.
I graduated in 63.......took Algebra I.Algebra !!, Geometry !. Geometry II
Our math teacher was a true teacher !
He " worked that blackboard" til he was sweating and when the bell rang ending class every kid had a grasp on what he was teachinhg that day.
Teachers and students have to make better use of the allotted class periods. ( IMHO )
Please see the sticky at the top of this forum regarding homework help. The most important thing I learned about homework was that homework was to be done by the kids NOT the parents. My son has been working on his summer reading and homework for most of the summer. Frankly, besides seeing the books and buying one of them for him, I don't really know what he has to do, but we all know the due date....
Makes me wonder what that teacher and students are doing during class time.
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Teachers and students have to make better use of the allotted class periods. ( IMHO )
I agree. That comes first. Sometimes it still isn't enough. Sometimes kids don't want to keep asking questions that they feel like everyone else already understands (esp. in middle school). Sometimes the student has waited too long to ask, the class has moved on, and the teacher would rather help outside of class than change the plan for the day and get everyone behind schedule. (Teachers are under pressure to keep moving.)
By meeting with the child, a good teacher or tutor would be able to determine whether she is just confused about this particular problem because the R that she is solving for is in the denominator of a fraction and she doesn't know how to get to it, or whether she has no clue what's going on with "Solve for x" type problems at all, or whether the problem goes back farther than that. It may be complete confusion at seeing letters in math. It may a long-held false belief about the = sign. This kind of help is hard to give in class when it's only one student asking (for more than one reason).
Or the kid might not care about understanding at all, and will just keep ignoring it or fussing about it until someone else does it for her. (My nephew had mastered this by 4th grade - keep acting clueless and eventually Mom will point out the answer.)
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