Did any of your advanced math kids take longer to developmentally grasp onto geometry?
I worked for many years as a volunteer high school math teacher, and found that it's not terribly unusual for kids who are able to grasp algebra etc easily to struggle with geometry. One of my own children has a real variability in understanding math concepts - some come quite easily, others you'd think she was facing a flight to the moon to understand.
So in general, no, I wouldn't think that having issues with geometry in and of itself indicates a vision issue. BUT...
the other day he was looking at two patterns which were obviuously different, and he thought they were the same.
Things like this *would* make me wonder.
Which brings me back to my dd who has all the ups and downs with math. She also has a huge vision challenge (which honestly, I don't think is related to her math struggles... just a coincidence for this particular thread lol!). We first clued into her vision issues in 2nd grade when she complained about not being able to read the board at school. We took her to our regular eye dr and she had 20/20 eyesight. So we went home thinking all was well and dd continued to complain about not being able to read the board. Long story shortened quite a bit, we eventually landed at a developmental optometrist' eval where we found out she had extremely severe double vision, and one of her eyes was actually shutting down (vision) due to the double vision. So she had 20/20 eyesight but absolutely a huge struggle with *vision* - two totally different things. I was with her when she was going through the eval, and saw what they did to assess whether or not she was seeing double, and she answered as if having double vision was the most normal thing in the world - because, for her, it was. She literally up until that point in time, at 8 years old, had no idea that the rest of us weren't seeing two of everything also! So, fwiw, it's quite possible that a smaller challenge with tracking etc might go under the radar for years in a student who didn't realize they weren't seeing the world in the same way as everyone else. A typical eye exam doesn't check for tracking/convergence/peripheral vision range etc.
polarbear
