it could be the curriculum you are using.
i'd look at khan academy for video help.
I don't know what math your child's in, 8th grade can vary, but my two 7th graders are in pre-algebra which I can keep up with and teach pretty well given I used to tutor it in college.
I however will have a hard time when it comes to calculus so I may be using http://www.youtube.com/ and http://www.khanacademy.org/ a lot to look up how to do this or that. Thankfully they have a lot of video's professors and teachers have done to demonstrate how to work any given problem.... if we can't muddle through using those resources then I'll either have my kids take the classes in college or hire a tutor.
Is it that you *can't* teach the subject material or that you just put it off?
If it's that you can't teach it, check out youtube on each subject. If you it's that you keep putting it off, do it first thing in the morning so you can get it out of the way.
I feel the same way at first till I started doing hands on activities like fractions percentages decimals fractions we walked around the K-Mart and used money that is what interest my 8th grader more hands on things. We are going to walk up down the block using houses. We played with my preschoolers blocks multiply we used money division we use everything in the house.
I can't stop saying good things about Thinkwell.com. You can buy any course for usually around $125 for the year, and you get access to HUNDREDS of video lessons per topic and enough activities for your child to work on it for an hour+ per day every day of the year if you want. The best part is thinkwell forces your child to learn. Multiple choice questions that explain the answer to you after you answer each one, and your child can go back and correct their answer after they are explained why it was wrong.
They have most every subject from 6th grade-college level. There are videos for each chapter and notes for each chapter that can be printed out. It is all broken down into individual lessons as well. Like, watch a video, read the notes, do an exercise. Love it!
Quoting illinoismommy83:
I can't stop saying good things about Thinkwell.com. You can buy any course for usually around $125 for the year, and you get access to HUNDREDS of video lessons per topic and enough activities for your child to work on it for an hour+ per day every day of the year if you want. The best part is thinkwell forces your child to learn. Multiple choice questions that explain the answer to you after you answer each one, and your child can go back and correct their answer after they are explained why it was wrong.
They have most every subject from 6th grade-college level. There are videos for each chapter and notes for each chapter that can be printed out. It is all broken down into individual lessons as well. Like, watch a video, read the notes, do an exercise. Love it!
This is what I plan on checking into if I have problems teaching DD math when she gets into 6th. I've heard really good things.
whos having the problem?? you or your child?? hahahahaha i do 8th grade math every day, im not a math person, but the books ive been using explain it so well for me that i can help c when he doenst know something! i also go through and work the problems (if i have time) first so i know what hes doing! i use saxon math and love it!
Decision Made...I will be full time homeschooling this year!
- jorjiegirl
on Oct. 23, 2012 at 11:17 AM