I used it to revise for the test, by the way. A good site .

Study habits can also focus the mind for some people…but not all. For example, many people like listening to music, but that completely screws me over, because I’m a musician and I get absorbed in it and I can read a chapter of a book and have no clue what I read, but be able to tell you what key the music was in. This and a lot of other stuff has been getting me investigating ADHD/ADD. That might be one to consider as well…but it is overdiagnosed and underdiagnosed at the same time, if you will…so if you have that checked out, be sure it’s by someone who has experience with it. It’s not a big deal, but if she has a pattern of distractability that you can trace back a long time, it’s worth at least considering.

In either case, I don’t know if I’d try a website or software to help… Mainly because they are impersonal approaches, and I believe most people find it difficult enough to study from a book sitting still, let alone staring at an eye-tiring monitor.

That also brings up another facet…people learn in different ways. There are a lot more intelligent people than there are ones that ace school. Few learn best while sitting still… I notice my mind works better when I’m exercising or active in some way. Some people do benefit from the music (baroque classical has been said to actually affect plant growh haha), etc… So maybe there’s something she can do which will improve her attention span as well, depending on her personality.

If it truly is just anxiety alone, then I think some personal attention, even if not math tutoring, would be beneficial. In school, everyone’s probably going to be afraid of looking stupid if they’re not good at something…so she would need to be in an environment, or at least perceive that she would not be chastised or laughed at if she makes a mistake (this may be relevant, depending on how “nice” the school is).

If, in the end, a tutor is the answer, I don’t know where you are, but my friend, whom I’ve known over a decade, has actually just started a tutoring business, specializing in math. He is doing grad work now, and he’s as good as they come at math (the sort the inept high school teacher would be checking her answers with).

We have both had discussions about how knowing how to do math and teaching it are two distinct skills (one obviously requiring the other). This is the Binghamton, NY area, by the way. I don’t think he’s looked into online business (and the quality of such a service would clearly suffer a little from not being an in-person thing), but if you are not in the area and would like to talk to him (or if you are :-P), then e-mail me — [email protected] (I’m not the sort of friend that’s gonna put his e-mail up on the web hehe).

http://www.tutorgator.com

http://www.tutorz.com

www.purplemath.com