Math

Each day the girls have a math lesson and a worksheet. Beth is always rushing to finish her school work. We go through the same song and dance everyday. I teach the lesson. She quickly completes her sheet and gives it to me to check. The math program reviews constantly so the sheet is very comprehensive. She usually misses quite a few the first time around. I hand it back to her to correct her work. She gets angry and starts the silent tears. The tears don't work with me. When they came in April the crying may have worked once or twice, but that is it. Then I had her number. She shuts down and can't function. I try to help her, not enable her, and she can't even think straight. She can't answer the simple questions which I know she knows the answers too. She wants me to tell her the answer so she can get her school finished. I refuse to tell her the answers. I am totally willing to walk her through the steps to find the answer. I am not sure they were made to think on their own in their previous environment.

Yesterday, she had a number line to number and then tell what number some letters were on. I told her the number line was correct, but she had the wrong number beside a letter. She was one off on a number. She proceeds to erase all of the numbers on the line and all of her answers. Only one number was wrong and it was circled in red as I alway do. After about 15 minutes of crying and being angry, she was still not able to renumber the line. She did it with no problem the first time. I suggested that she go play or ride her bike for a while and then try. She chose to sit and cry. Is this control? She can't handle being wrong? She knows I will not help her while she is crying and whining. I feel like she is trying to manipulate and control the situation.l She knows that I will not accept, "I don't know how" or "I can't" either, especially when I know that she does know how.

Once she finishes her little fit, she can complete the work. This may take an hour of tears and frustration. She gets mad at me because I won't do it for her.

Ugh!!