one bad semester...

BeeDAre
Thu, 23 Apr 2015 23:14:57 +0000

My daughter has historically done very well in math - so much that they placed her in Honors Advanced Algebra as a freshman and she took Trig and Pre-Calc as a sophomore. She got A’s until Pre-Calc. She got a C for the semester. Part of that - a big part, I think - was she freaked out because it was not easy for her anymore and she kind of gave up. When she told me she might fail the class, I told her to just get to work, study hard and try to get a C. She did.

She also took Pre-Calc again in the summer, and got a B. Do you have that option?

She has struggled with Calc AB this year, but she is getting a B as of now (got a C last semester - again, she is used to math coming easily to her, so just freaked and paralyzed when it didn’t. I had to talk her through it.)

Take a deep breath, go through your problems carefully, and just keep telling yourself you will get through this, and yes, you will even remember some of it later! Just do the best you can.

If this is your only bad semester so far, there is no need to be so fatalistic. You are challenging yourself, and that is good, actually. You will end up in a 4 year college - you will!