The first form of intelligence that we discussed a couple of weeks ago (where does time go) was that of verbal - linguistic intelligence.  As we remember when a student best learns in this method, they prefer reading and verbally communication.  This does not always work well with the higher maths, that become more abstract then the bases.  As a young student it is easy to verbally explain adding and subtracting, but what happens when we change it from adding and subtracting to negatives and positives. 
      If you have a student that prefers to learn in a verbal - linguistic method, you need to approach the more abstract concepts, with a lot of step by step methods, a lot of practice and walking they them through the steps orally.  This does not mean that they can not learn and understand the more abstract concepts it just means that to help them more easily understand these concepts you need to approach them from a verbal - linguistic approach.  As these students are strong in the area of writing, having them writing the definitions, and the steps will help them with grasping the concepts.
     Till next time, have a good day and learn something new each day.