Essential Question

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Essential Question

• How do students with identifiable disabilities
  compare with other students learning?

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Unit Questions

• How do you feel about teaching students with
  special needs?
• Do you think the mathematics accommodations you
  have learned about are effective for any student?
• What are some additional mathematics
  accommodations?

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Mathematics Accommodations for All Students

• By Roxie Stewart

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Overview

• Accommodations for Mathematics
• Use of Organization
• Use of Highlighting
• Use of Manipulatives
• Use of Time Management

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Use of Organization

• Teach students how to organize
• Allow students to use graph paper
• Enable students to transcribe problems

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Use of Highlighting

• Help students to compute
• Remind students to regroup
• Provides a visual cue to change computational
  operations and remembering directions

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Use of Manipulatives

• Provide concrete and semi concrete
  representations
• Hands- on- activities

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Use of Time Management

• Keep students on task
• Alert students for transitions
• Display daily activities

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Websites on Mathematics

• Math Accommodations Web Site
• http//www.specialconnections.ku.edu/cgi-bin/cgiwr
  ap/specconn/print.php?path./page/instruction/ia/c
  asec

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Talk Time!

• Name the four accommodations
• -Organization
• -Highlighting
• -Manpulatives
• -Time Management
• Name some accommodations that YOU used to learn
  Math?
• Did you feel as a special need student?