I believe Claudia was good at math

[supprazz]

I believe she had it in her to be good at math and improve, but her family was not proud of her for not scoring under 90 percent. She did well on the math tests in Claudia and the Middle School Mystery. In Claudia and the Sad Goodbye, she got a mark in the 80's. In Canada, getting 80 and over is considered an A and I know American standards are different, but if they used different language with her and positive reinforcement, she would want to do well on her own instead of to shut them up. I'm sure she knew how to divide her snacks among her friends and seem like a logical thinking person at times. And I'm sure the visuals in math would have appealed to her, like fractions cause she's an "expert" at everything in art.

[sparklymouse]

Things are always easier to learn when you are interested in the topic. I'm sure if every math problem was like "Claudia, if you have a package of two Twinkies and you have to share them equally with five of your friends, how much Twinkie would each person get?" then she would have been more involved.

[supprazz]

As watered down as that sounds and catered to her, it really would have helped her. Maybe she could have stayed at Stoneybrook Alternative School or whatever it was called, or had a tutor come in few times a week, I don't understand why her parents couldn't do that for her. I was an okay student but sometimes things got difficult and math got worse after my sophomore year, so my parents got a tutor for me and I passed.

[wanderingfrog]

Mar 7, 2010 12:48:31 GMT -5 supprazz said:

In Canada, getting 80 and over is considered an A and I know American standards are different, but if they used different language with her and positive reinforcement, she would want to do well on her own instead of to shut them up.

I think you mean "In some schools in some places in Canada, getting 80 and over is considered an A."

When I was in Grade Eight, at my school, getting a mark in the 80s was considered a B. It also would have been completely unacceptable to me personally.

[supprazz]

well Ontario is like that, where in Canada are you from? It really depended on the subject too, most of the time I was relieved about getting 80 and over, but if it was a subject I was extremely passionate about, I wanted to keep the mark over 90.

[oldhickory]

in the clue in the photograph, she's able to calculate lots of things like shutter speeds and stuff. (can you tell i'm not a photographer?) she said it came really easy to her.

[sparklymouse]

I was thinking she could have learned fractions and percentages by mixing paint colors or something artsy like that.

I would have gotten Janine Kishi type grades at supprazz's school. My school district had 80=C, 90=B, and a solid A didn't start until 95.

[supprazz]

^ yeah she really would have benefited from it. Where are you from if you don't mind me asking?

[sparklymouse]

^supprazz, I'm from ultra-sophisticated southern Wisconsin. I think I'm the only one on the boards from there...that or no one else will admit to it.

[supprazz]

Interesting...where is it?

[wenonah4th]

I know when I was in school I had to hang on for dear life to pass math, but I like it now. Being a homeschool aspiring mom I actually do a lot of math myself!

[supprazz]

in my last 3 years of school, I hung onto math too in case I needed it for an undergrad requirement and got extra help for it, cause the units that were hard were SO HARD

[greer]

She studied hard for that test where she did well. It wasn't important enough for her to study that hard every time.

My dad insists that I could have been good at math because I actually did pretty well on my SATs, but I never liked it and it never came easily to me. Actually, I noticed that a lot of the kids in the higher math groups were older--sometimes a year older than me, even. I was born in late July and was one of the youngest in my class. So perhaps it had to do with my brain being ready for the math I was introduced to.

[supprazz]

I think maybe my self esteem got low when it came to math, but I didn't know it then. I didn't give myself enough credit for being really good at algebra and trigonometry and focused too much on barely passing functions, geometry and so forth and going downhill with all that, despite getting extra help.

[supprazz]

was also good at matrices and rational expressions or something like that