They will never forget how to obtain price per unit after they have stood in a store aisle with a calculator and crunched the numbers several times. Unfortunately, many school programs have gotten lost in their own didacticism. We don't have to. The alternative materials may be the only things that gets through to the math-phobic kid. Finally, incorporating hands-on and real life and recreational math materials in your program can help you and your student feel more relaxed about math.
Math games are fun.
Homeschooling catalogs carry many recreational math games, but often you need not look any further than your hall closet. Monopoly, for example, provides excellent practice and review of the four basic arithmetic operations, lots of mental math, as well as fractions, decimals, and percents.