[Maths-Education] help with maths

[Charlie Gilderdale]

Can anyone help?

Charlie Gilderdale


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Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 11:53:57 +0000
From: Elsa Strietman <es10004@cus.cam.ac.uk>
To: j.e.m.hawkins@damtp.cam.ac.uk
Subject: help with maths

Dear Julia Hawkins,

I do hope you do not mind me approaching you. I wondered whether you would
know anyone who could help my fourteen-year-old son who two years ago was
diagnosed as having the, in my lay understanding, numerical form of
dyslexia, dyscalculia. He is about to start his GCSE subjects in the autumn
and his interests are strongly in the area of zoology and biology. It is
unlikely that he will be able to get a good , or even a bad, GSCE in Math,
although he is otherwise doing well. For many years I had private teachers
to help him, but to no avail. Since the diagnosis I have tried to mobilise
his school to find him a teacher who will understand his difficulty and to
teach him, with no result so far.

Would you have any information or advice to offer? As I understand it: GCSE
Math is not exactly complicated in its material; a specific mode of
teaching it is required in my son's case, and, I suspect, in the case of
quite a number of children.

Best wishes,

Elsa Strietman