She is 8.5 and in 3rd grade, although I'm holding her in 3rd grade again in the fall due to her young age, and the fact we didn't get much of school done these last several months. Should I worry about her not having the facts down? We've done Calculadders and Math Windows and now a whole topical book on learning the facts and the Singapore type concepts behind the facts (completing 10's first, etc.) She is okay with her times tables after doing Singapore 2 and Timez Attack on the computer for fun. We hadn't found HOD or Singapore math in the earlier years when she should have been learning the facts. I'm at a loss about what to do at this point. This is my sponge child...the one that remembers EVERYTHING she sees and hears and smells....LOL. She can recite many of the poems we are learning in Bigger after a couple days, and all the verses on the first day. But math facts (and telling time!) are not sticking with her. I've considered a type of dyslexia...it's that bad...2+2 can take 10 seconds at times and even subtracting 1 is hard for her!!
Any ideas?
When tutoring children in math, I would get out the math flashcards and separate them into groups according to numbers. So first, the dc would only do the zero cards that contained "+ 0". We talked about how "0" is nothing, so the answer is always just the other number. When they thought they were ready for me to time them, they told me (we practiced first though). I gave them 2-3 seconds per card, depending on how I thought they would do. So for 10 cards, I gave either 20 seconds or 30 seconds to complete them (I wanted them to pass - this first time especially!). Then, we did the 1's (all the "+ 1's") separately. We talked about finding the bigger number and thinking what number is next. We practiced. When they were ready, we did 2-3 seconds per card again. Next, we mixed the "0's" and the "1's. I gave a minute to do all of them. After that, the 2's, and we practiced finding the bigger number and counting up. When they passed the 2's, they got mixed in with the 1's, 2's, 3's, and the 4's were practiced separately, and so on. We did this for adding first, and then subtracting. We did this every day, and eventually just pulled out the cards they were missing repeatedly, and those were the only ones they practiced. We continued to move on with their regular math, but did this daily. 