 Hi Vanessa, how are you doing? My daughter got her midterm report back last week and she dropped from an A to a B. She's in second grade, they're grading AB for second grade. The note from her teacher said compounded addition problems. Any advice on how to help her grasp it a little bit better? For sure, she's really smart but just has a short attention span when it comes to math. First order of business, if someone has a short attention span when it comes to math, feed them the information faster. From my experience, if someone's losing attention and they've got a short attention span for math, I feed the information to them faster. Don't worry too much about the minor nuances. Kick them up to a level where they start showing interest. Once you've got those problems going on, you obviously need the pre-stuff to be able to do this stuff. So get them going on these more complicated problems, stuff that they might be interested in. They hit an obstacle that they don't know how to do. You kick them back to that specific nuance that they had to learn. Teach them that. And right away, they get to practice it because it's a hurdle that they just overcame. And they do it. And they actually see how that connects back to everything else before that. And they also get to use it to connect onto more complicated concepts. So that's one way of doing it. So keep an eye out for that. That's really important. Don't hold students that are losing attention span in math or anything else for that matter in one spot just because they're having a hard time grasping that one concept or they're getting bored of that one concept. Even if they can't do it properly yet all the time. As long as they know how to do it two out of four times, just kick them up if they're stuck on that. Preferably you need to get them doing a little bit better than two out of four, 50% of time getting it correct. But if they continue to use it, they'll improve on it. The other one is this. Take a look at these videos we put out. Let me go to our playlist. If you go to the YouTube channel, I put out three videos for early childhood education. Let me find them for you. Here we go. There's four videos I put out. So this one is how to teach counting and then the next one is how to teach adding. The next one is how to teach multiplication and the one out of that is the whole thing. Oh yeah, let me give you the whole thing. So it's three videos and it's three videos broken into pieces from this one longer video. So this is the video you want to see. I'll give you my train of thought on how to deal with kids. I usually work with grade six and out five, six, five is lowest I go. But depending on where you are in the world, they start teaching mathematics like really early on. In one or two, you're already into multiplying and dividing. So if that's the case, these should help you out. Hope that's okay. That's sort of my long winded to get you going on it. If you have any more questions Vanessa, just drop me a line or pop into the stream either today. I don't think you get a chance to watch them but in the next mass stream, let me know where your daughter might be having problems and we'll try to deal with it right away.