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Last Sunday, after a couple games of spades, I tried to give my sister a hand with her math homework. The tenth grader, geometry. There were a few problems with the intent. First, I didn't really see what she needed a hand with - the problems appeared to be the veriest trivia and finishable in under two minutes. This, compiled with the fact that
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Speaking from my own experience, as someone that just can't do math... my mind doesn't function mathematically at all, I struggled all through school where math was concerned... and with my dyslexia it just compounded the issue (I'd see numbers reversed like letters at times and it'd totally throw me off). Anyway, when my brother would come to help me... and he'd get frustrated because I didn't know how to do something that I *should* know how to do... usually I would just shut down and stop trying. I knew I should know it, I knew I had been thought it, but for whatever reason it never sunk in... I already felt a little stupid... and his frustration, no matter how hard he tried to hide it, came out and just made me more self-conscious... to the point that I'd just give up and not be interested at all. It's much easier to say to yourself that you gave up because you didn't want to do it than it is to say to yourself it was because you couldn't do it...
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Perhaps I'm biased because I tutor professionally, but it seems to me that it's much harder for family members and even for friends to bring that kind of objectivity and self-control to a lesson. Also I guess it helps that I have the wider experience to know that no matter how dense this student may seem to me, I've probably seen worse... *LOL*
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