tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3038828360589919480.post7905844807872945220..comments2023-10-12T05:22:07.181-04:00Comments on The Prichard Blog!: Common standards and the mathematics for each grade (key information for parents)SPWestonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08602329486466534720noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3038828360589919480.post-57212851115655919542010-03-22T08:39:33.389-04:002010-03-22T08:39:33.389-04:00Cindy, are there useful publications on the issue?...Cindy, are there useful publications on the issue?<br /><br />(I ask mainly for the blog, but partly for a girl I know who used verbal proficiency to replace spatial skills all the way up to precalculus. A psychologist using mirror-based tasks had diagnosed the problem when the kid was six, but in the 1960s, they figured all they could do was wait until the problem surfaced in school work--and that took another ten years.)SPWestonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08602329486466534720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3038828360589919480.post-54776902978186049422010-03-21T15:54:42.295-04:002010-03-21T15:54:42.295-04:00It would be great if we could also publish a "...It would be great if we could also publish a "Problems to look out for in critical skills" section for each grade. My son's academic progress in math tanked in the 7th grade, subsequently after testing it was discovered that he had a specific learning disability in math that showed up in his ability to do the second thing listed in Grade 7: " (2) Students develop a unified understanding of number, recognizing fractions, decimals, and percents as different representations of rational numbers." Yet none of his teachers K-6 picked up on the fact that he was struggling.<br /><br />It is kind of like the phenomenon that Karen Cheser talks about in Boone County's discovery that difficulty with skills taught in ealier years are often not detected at the time, but by the time the student gets to high school those difficulties have built into much larger problems in learning and are showing up in testing. (Susan, you had a link to a video of Karen talking abou this on Facebook, but couldn't find it.)Cindy Baumertnoreply@blogger.com