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Peer reviewedLock, Robin H. – LD Forum, 1996
This article offers guidelines and suggestions for adapting mathematics instruction when teaching students with learning disabilities in the general classroom. Techniques for teaching computational skills, solving algorithms, and problem solving are offered. General techniques include increasing instructional time, varying group size, and using…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Computation, Elementary Secondary Education, Inclusive Schools
Lipstreu, Betty Lee – Academic Therapy, 1987
The paper details teaching methods that have proved successful in teaching money management skills to secondary special education students (e.g., use of real money, organization of money before counting, transitions when counting different bill denominations, instruction in various bill combinations, sequence of introducing coin combinations, and…
Descriptors: Basic Business Education, Computation, Daily Living Skills, Instructional Materials
Miller, James H.; Carr, Sonya C. – Diagnostique, 1997
Eighty-seven elementary students in grades four, five, and six, were administered a 30-item multiplication instrument to assess performance in computation across grade levels. An interpretation of student performance using error ratio analysis is provided and the use of this method with groups of students for instructional decision making is…
Descriptors: Computation, Disability Identification, Error Patterns, Evaluation Methods
Peer reviewedZentall, Sydney S.; Ferkis, Mary Ann – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1993
This review of research finds that, when IQ and reading ability are controlled, "true" math deficits of students with learning disabilities, attention deficit disorders, and attention deficit hyperactive disorders (ADHD) are specific to mathematical concepts and problem types. Slow computation affects problem solving by increasing attentional…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Disorders, Computation, Elementary Secondary Education, Hyperactivity
Download full textHoy, Cheri A.; Gregg, K. Noel – 1984
This publication, the sixth of seven booklets intended for adult education teachers of students with learning disabilities, reviews assessment and remediation considerations in mathematics. Observation of math disabilities is discussed in terms of social and general academic environment, calculation activities, quantitative concepts, and applied…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adults, Calculators, Classroom Observation Techniques
Peer reviewedGarnett, Katherine – Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 1992
Insights from both cognitive psychology and learning disabilities intervention research are presented to improve understanding of the processes by which number fact fluency develops. Discussion includes assessment guidelines and learning strategies such as counting all, counting on, and alternative groupings. (Author/JDD)
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Psychology, Computation
