They need a reasonable work environment and good study skills as well. They may need supplemental materials to study in order to meet their needs. Parents can follow their children's progress carefully. This means more than just looking at the grades that come home from school. Parents can watch their children do math to learn what they can and cannot do.
Parents can give problems to their children to evaluate their progress.
Parents can remember the learning objectives and monitor progress toward these goals throughout the year. One example of the limitations of a reform program may illustrate the situation and what parents can do about it. These pages are devoted to a script presenting a dialogue among school-age students. They discuss how to pick the correct size for a container for storing phone books in connection with their recycling project. The culmination of this dialogue is the idea that they can measure the length and width of the bottom of the phone book and multiply to get the area.