My ds12 is in Honors Algebra I. He has struggled a bit with silly mistakes but is getting much better. It seemed half of his mistakes was an absent or misplaced negatives. Other mistake were very simple calculations also. He gets plenty/a lot of homework but struggles sometimes with doing only what is assigned and not reviewing on his own. Again, recently he is doing much better and out of the blue his hand writing is much better and organized which is probably helping.
This topic came up last night when I was talking to my daughter. She told me that when she has do a problem that's new and different, "everything just gets muddled up," and "it's like there's an oak tree and a redwood tree and a maple tree and apple tree, but all I can see is TREES." I think she was trying to say that she can't see the individual trees for the forest.
