As to yesterday- I was lucky. I had discalulia, undiagnosed. My teacher’s explanations didn’t make sense often. But Dad had a Masters in Chemistry when I started school, a PhD by the time I was in algebra, and was a professor…. and willing and able to teach me different ways of doing it until I understood where I was going and could figure out each step for each problem. A teacher once got tired of me coming in, said I didn’t need to “understand” it, just “do” it. I couldn’t… something someone in the advanced track due to reading ability shouldn’t have happen, in her mind… Gil is lucky as well!
As to yesterday- I was lucky. I had discalulia, undiagnosed. My teacher’s explanations didn’t make sense often. But Dad had a Masters in Chemistry when I started school, a PhD by the time I was in algebra, and was a professor…. and willing and able to teach me different ways of doing it until I understood where I was going and could figure out each step for each problem. A teacher once got tired of me coming in, said I didn’t need to “understand” it, just “do” it. I couldn’t… something someone in the advanced track due to reading ability shouldn’t have happen, in her mind… Gil is lucky as well!