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Teaching Mathematics to Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students: A Few Best Practices at the

Secondary Level

Cooperative Learning Groups

• Ideas for mixed groups of hearing and Deaf/HH students in a college math course

• http://deaftec.org/resources/math/cooperative-learning-groups

Instructor Resources:

Word Problem Analysis• The “Form” • Activity- post a problem• Use the form

• http://deaftec.org/resources/math/links

Voice Thread

• Web-based application that allows you to have group conversations around images, documents, and videos

• Activity

• http://www.voicethread.com

Dictionaries

• ASL Math dictionaries• http://www.tsdvideo.org/

• Illustrated Math dictionaries• https://

dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/18588361/Misc/Illustrated%20Maths%20Dictionary%204th.pdf

• Vocabulary A-Z• http://www.vocabularya-z.com

• Discussion

Math Video Resources

• Mathematical procedures written out numerically and explained in ASL (captioned)

• Discussion

• http://deaftec.org/resources/math/self-instruction

Last but not the least…

• Document Camera (ELMO or Ladibug)• Notes (Powerpoint)• Interactive board (SMARTBoard or E-Beam)• Laptops

• Whiteboard (Wall sized or pocket size)• Others??

DeafTEC websitehttp://deaftec.org/resources/math

Updates-http://edeafmath.blogspot.com/