Spanish/English bilinguals, help! How can we help our son with his math homework when we have language barriers?

Spanish/English bilinguals, help! How can we help our son with his math homework when we have language barriers? I'm American but I've always been terrible at math.My husband is Latino and his English is good, but there are a lot of words he doesn't know (like mathematical terms.

) He's great at math, as long as it's in Spanish. Our 9 year old son needs help with homework and it's becoming stressful. I can't help because I'm awful at math.

My husband tries but can't understand how to explain it because of the language barrier. Is there any online resources like a math forum in Spanish, or a site in Spanish about basic math. For example, right now my husband is trying to help him with rounding to the 10 and 100 thousands, but he doesn't even know the word "rounding" or it's equivalent in Spanish.

~:( Frustrated! Asked by Tee 51 months ago Similar questions: Spanish English bilinguals help son math homework language barriers Science > Math.

Similar questions: Spanish English bilinguals help son math homework language barriers.

Here are some potentially helpful links. :) I'm so sorry to hear about your situation. It sounds really, really frustrating.

:*(This sort of reminds me of an Infocom game from the 80's in which one had to accomplish certain goals by controlling a group of five or six robots, each of which had its own strengths and weaknesses. So while one robot, Iris, could see things, she couldn't pick anything up. Another robot was blind but had grabbers.So you'd tell Iris to go look at something and the second robot to pick it up.

One of the game's jokes was that Frank, the multifunctional, all-purpose, do-all robot was broken and unrepairable. =/. Good stuff.

Anyway, the lesson learned in that game was that by working together folks with different strengths can overcome difficult problems. First, here's a dictionary that provides some English-Spanish math terms: math2.org/math/spanish/eng-spa.htm#RSecond, here's a glossary that explains English math terms into Spanish. I checked; it does include "rounding.

" :) http://www.mathnotes.com/aw_span_gloss.htmlThird, here's a forum that includes math lessons in Spanish. I don't know if it'll be of much help, but perhaps your husband can find problems that are similar to the ones your son is working on. http://mathforum.org/teachers/spanish/lessons.htmlFinally, and I think this is the most important bit, it's -awesome- that you all are wanting to work together for your son's benefit.

Way too many families are unwilling to do this. Best of luck. :)-sm Sources: http://math2.org/math/spanish/eng-spa.htm#R .

Get the internet to help you Google has a great section for helping with translation. It will translate words directly if it can, but you can also put a webpage into it and the whole web page will come out the language that you want. google.com/language_tools?hl=en so here is an example of a good math helper website: 321know.com/g3_41cx1.htm and here is the rounding paragraph after I put it in the translator "Redondeo al mil más cercano Los números redondeados son más fáciles de trabajar con en tu cabeza.

Son solamente aproximados. Una respuesta exacta no se puede obtener con estos números. Una respuesta exacta no se requiere a veces.

A los números redondos al mil más cercano, hacer los números que tres dígitos pasados son 001 a 499 en el número más bajo siguiente ese los extremos en 000. Por ejemplo, 6424 redondeados al mil más cercano es 6000. Los números que tienen los tres dígitos pasados de 500 o más se deben redondear hasta incluso el mil siguiente.

El número 8788 redondeó al mil más cercano es 9000. " My spanish isn't good enough to know if that is easy or hard to follow/understand. I have a feeling it's not too bad though.

Good Luck! Sources: google.com/language_tools?hl=en and 321know.com/g3_41cx1.htm .

We're in the same situation with the birth of our first child. My wife and I have decided that she and her friends will only speak her native tongue to the child while everyone else speaks English.At the same time I am learning her language so I can also speak and understand both languages.

2 ronin - We are raising both our children bilingual. My husband and I are both bilingual English/Spanish (though I'm not completely fluent in Spanish and he is not completely fluent in English. ) We speak to the children in both languages, they watch TV in both languages, we pray in both languages, we listen to music in both languages, and we read to them in both languages.

Regardless, they both have a much stronger preference for English - which is very common in this situation. My husband's brother married a Latina - so you have 2 native Spanish speaking parents, but they live in the United States - their 2 kids don't speak Spanish well. This happens with many 2nd generation kids.So, if your child is still an infant and you think you've got it all in the bag - wait a few years.

It's harder than you think! .

Ronin - We are raising both our children bilingual. My husband and I are both bilingual English/Spanish (though I'm not completely fluent in Spanish and he is not completely fluent in English. ) We speak to the children in both languages, they watch TV in both languages, we pray in both languages, we listen to music in both languages, and we read to them in both languages.

Regardless, they both have a much stronger preference for English - which is very common in this situation. My husband's brother married a Latina - so you have 2 native Spanish speaking parents, but they live in the United States - their 2 kids don't speak Spanish well. This happens with many 2nd generation kids.So, if your child is still an infant and you think you've got it all in the bag - wait a few years.

It's harder than you think!

3 mllrstvn, regarding your answer "Here are some potentially helpful links. :)":Thank you so much. Your answer really made my day.

And I love the analogy about the robot game. Our marriage is exactly like that! LOL.

We both have very different skills and when we work together, it's amazing the things we can accomplish. I know this can be said about not just marriage and family, but about communities, countries, etc. Very insightful! :) .

Mllrstvn, regarding your answer "Here are some potentially helpful links. :)":Thank you so much. Your answer really made my day.

And I love the analogy about the robot game. Our marriage is exactly like that! LOL.

We both have very different skills and when we work together, it's amazing the things we can accomplish. I know this can be said about not just marriage and family, but about communities, countries, etc. Very insightful! :).

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Need a little help on my homework for English 101.

For all the people here who helped me with my daughter's math homework...

Homework: as a retired math teacher, I ought to love it; but, as a parent, I hate it!

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