Math
Building mathematical skill has life-long implications for students but can be easily overlooked. Basic life tasks such as paying bills, balancing a checkbook, creating budgets, arriving at work on time, and measuring can be the make or break point(s) for a student to move out of the house and live independently. More advanced skill(s) may determine the type and pay of a student’s employment. Skills such as measuring in the building trades, estimating the amount needed in inventories, budgeting business expenses and reading stock charts and graphs for investing or insurance purchases also use mathematical skills.
Tasks you want the student to do?
· Gain fluency in “reading” math
· Understand math processes
· Gain mastery of math facts
· Organize steps to solve the problem
· Align and apply steps
· Draw or write mathematical notation
Tasks you want the student to do?
· Gain fluency in “reading” math
· Understand math processes
· Gain mastery of math facts
· Organize steps to solve the problem
· Align and apply steps
· Draw or write mathematical notation
LOW-TECH
1) Manipulatives will help reinforce math concepts through touch
2) Flash cards for measuring progress and practicing math facts
3) Abacus or master ruler provide visual and tactile repetition and computation
4) Adapted math paper
5) Fraction rubber stamps
1) Manipulatives will help reinforce math concepts through touch
2) Flash cards for measuring progress and practicing math facts
3) Abacus or master ruler provide visual and tactile repetition and computation
4) Adapted math paper
5) Fraction rubber stamps
MID-TECH
1) Large calculators with oversized buttons are useful for students who lack fine motor control
2) Talking calculators are helpful to students with visual impairments
3)
The "coin" abacus and "coin-u-lator" contain keys that are shaped and
sized just like coins and are designed to teach basic money counting.
HIGH-TECH
1) FASTT Math (Fluency and Automaticity through Systematic Teaching with Technology; Tom Snyder) is a math intervention program that helps students acquire math fact fluency.
2) Timez Attack (Big Brainz) focuses on multiplication facts and engages students in a high-tech video game environment featuring high-quality graphics.
3) MathPad (Cambium Learning) is a talking math worksheet program that enables students to perform arithmetic computations with whole numbers on the computer in much the same way they would use paper and pencil.
2) Timez Attack (Big Brainz) focuses on multiplication facts and engages students in a high-tech video game environment featuring high-quality graphics.
3) MathPad (Cambium Learning) is a talking math worksheet program that enables students to perform arithmetic computations with whole numbers on the computer in much the same way they would use paper and pencil.
Resources
Assessing Students' Needs for Assistive Technology (ASNAT) 5th Edition – complete version (June 2009).
Dell, Amy G. Deborah A. Newton & Jerry G. Petroff. (2102). Assistive Technology in the Classroom, 2nd Ed. Upper Saddle River: Pearson.
Assessing Students' Needs for Assistive Technology (ASNAT) 5th Edition – complete version (June 2009).
Dell, Amy G. Deborah A. Newton & Jerry G. Petroff. (2102). Assistive Technology in the Classroom, 2nd Ed. Upper Saddle River: Pearson.