Topic started by Sriram (@ dhcp-192-197-203.in2cable.com) on Fri Aug 8 09:01:38 .
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Hi,
One of my friend's child is studying in 4th standard (India,CBSE) and she is not scoring well in maths subject. She could not even complete simple addition & subtraction calculations. Can you suggest some methods so that she understands maths well?

Or can you suggest some sites where maths is taught (like the one www.classontheweb.com)

Thanks.

Responses:

• From: :) (@ d150-188-97.home.cgocable.net) on: Fri Aug 8 10:00:28 EDT 2003
  
  http://www.ed.gov/pubs/parents/Math/
  
  
• From: kurankatti (@ sf-proxy2.montgomery.com) on: Fri Aug 8 13:35:53 EDT 2003
  
  check this news.
  http://www.chennaionline.com/chennaicitizen/ucmas.asp
  
  
• From: alison (@ 1cust66.tnt34.dfw9.da.uu.net) on: Fri Aug 8 17:17:08 EDT 2003
  
  more practice will help i think
  
  
• From: Shakthi (@ 203-195-199-244.now-india.net.in) on: Fri Aug 8 22:56:44 EDT 2003
  
  There are classes which concentrates on
  
  ABACUS method of teaching....minimum age for such classes is 6 and goes on up to the 12th age of the child.
  
  This activates the other side of the brain which is normally dormant for most of us, and increases the aptitude, IQ, and analysing, logical and calculating ablities of the child
  
  CHECK IT OUT
  
  IT WOUDL WORK
  
  
• From: Madurai Veeran (@ adsl-66-122-60-42.dsl.sntc01.pacbell.net) on: Sat Aug 9 01:46:04 EDT 2003
  
  May be the child is good at something else. Why not find out what the child is good at? If the normal methods of teaching mathematics work for the rest of the students, and if this child is not coping with it, the problem may lie with the parents who do not want to understand that this child's abilities may lie somewhere else.
  
  
  
• From: Madurai Veeran (@ adsl-66-122-60-42.dsl.sntc01.pacbell.net) on: Sat Aug 9 02:00:10 EDT 2003
  
  I once had the opportunity to spend a whole day with a person by name George Wald. During the course of our conversation, I learnt that his child was suffering from Down's syndrome. Well, that is life.
  
  Does it really matter if Prof George Wald, the Nobel Laureate, was the greatest of human minds in the field of Modern Biology? Does it really matter that he was one of those great minds in the field of Neurobiology, whose work stands unparalleled?
  
  No. Intelligence is not inherited. Some of us simply do not measure up. We are the victims of the vagaries of nature. That is a fact of life. Let's learn to accept it.
  
  Don't force the poor child to do something that it can not do.
  
  The grand old man, a great Indophile, a great secular humanist, passed away in 1997. Oh well, that is life.
  
  
  
• From: Harish Kumar (@ 203.195.215.254) on: Sat Aug 9 02:33:24 EDT 2003
  
  Well said MV !
  
  
• From: :) (@ d150-188-97.home.cgocable.net) on: Sat Aug 9 08:13:38 EDT 2003
  
  "No. Intelligence is not inherited. Some of us simply do not measure up. We are the victims of the vagaries of nature. That is a fact of life. Let's learn to accept it.
  "
  
  Well said.
  
  Besides, Math is not the only measure of intelligence.
  
  
• From: ramanujam (@ 61.1.247.58) on: Thu Aug 14 03:15:49 EDT 2003
  
  yes.maths is not the only measure of intelligence.
  
  

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