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Math and Characteristics of LD
Reading Assignment: Bender text, Chapter 7
- Little known about math achievement deficits among LD students
- Language abilities essential in mathematics
- Viewed as knowledge of an alternative language form
- Spatial abilities in math - ability to view objects from different perspectives and hold mental images of designs in short term memory) impact on math achievement
Memory and Practice Strategies
Interest Boxes 7.3 & 7.4 (Bender text pp. 199-200)
Consider in relation to the cognitive strategies discussed previously. Discuss further in Caucus as M2SF1.
- Current practices in the identification process may not identify those students with LD in math who do not demonstrate a disability in reading.
Assessment Tools:
- Brigance Inventories - excellent diagnostic-prescriptive tools; objectives can be easily incorporated into IEPs
- KeyMath Diagnostic Arithmetic Test-Revised- excellent tool to be used with student who has been given an informal assessment and appears to need further and more in-depth investigation
PONDER THIS CHALLENGE:
- Conduct a brief assessment of a child’s math skills using the informal assessment procedures discussed in chapter 7. If the child has already been identified with language delay or learning difficulties, what kinds of difficulties did student demonstrate? How would you use your findings to prepare objectives for the student’s IEP?
- Reflect on/discuss among your colleagues the advantages and disadvantages of teaching LD students to compute using a calculator or finger-counting methods? What types of positive feelings may be fostered by assuring success in early operations? What types of problems may be encountered later due to inability to compute math facts automatically? What is your understanding / opinion on the concept of automaticity? How much time is spent on development of "automaticity" among teachers of students in late primary and early junior grades in your school?
Post comments for discussion in Caucus as M2SF1. Post any slick informal math assessment ideas in B.B. of Ideas as M2SF1.
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