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Vickers, Melanie – Academic Therapy, 1984
A math teacher recounts how six weeks of computer assisted instruction, about which she had been very skeptical at first, resulted in substantial gains for six learning disabled students in addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. (CL)
Descriptors: Computation, Computer Assisted Instruction, Learning Disabilities, Mathematics Instruction
Dunlap, William F. – Academic Therapy, 1982
Readiness activities are described which are designed to help learning disabled (LD) students learn to perform computations in story problems. Activities proceed from concrete objects to numbers and involve the students in devising story problems. The language experience approach is incorporated with the enactive, iconic, and symbolic levels of…
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Computation, Language Experience Approach, Learning Disabilities
Reetz, Linda J.; Rasmussen, Terry L. – Academic Therapy, 1988
Two mnemonic acronyms can help learning-disabled children remember to complete the necessary steps for regrouping in addition and subtraction. (DB)
Descriptors: Addition, Basic Skills, Computation, Elementary Education
Peer reviewedCawley, John F. – Journal of Reading, Writing, and Learning Disabilities International, 1987
The article offers an interpretation of "specially designed instruction" in arithmetic computation for learning disabled students which challenges overreliance on paper-and-pencil methodologies, rule-oriented procedures, and traditional sequences. Long division is used as an example of developing conceptual understanding to undergird computation.…
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Computation, Division, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedGreene, Gary – Intervention in School and Clinic, 1992
This article offers multiplication fact memorization training techniques that have been successfully used with students with learning disabilities in resource room and clinical settings. Techniques include organizing the facts, using finger multiplication, visual mnemonic flashcards, and musical reinforcement. (DB)
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Classroom Techniques, Computation, Elementary Education
Ogletree, Earl J.; Chavez, Maria – 1981
The instruction of finger counting and finger calculation, also known as Chisanbop, is promoted as a natural method of introducing and teaching the basic processes of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division to children, particularly to those who are mentally and physically handicapped. The sequential process for teaching finger…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Computation, Elementary Education, Elementary School Mathematics
Download full textNevin, Ann, Ed.; Renne, Diane, Ed. – 2001
This collection of eight lesson plans is designed to assist teachers in providing mathematics instruction to elementary and secondary education students with different types of disabilities. The lessons use tactics for teaching mathematics content derived from Lovitt (1995), who summarized techniques found to be effective in increasing the…
Descriptors: Academic Accommodations (Disabilities), Computation, Cooperative Learning, Disabilities
