Essential Essential QuestionQuestion

** How do students with How do students with identifiable disabilities identifiable disabilities

compare with other compare with other students’ learning? students’ learning?

Unit Unit QuestionsQuestions

How do you feel about teaching How do you feel about teaching students with special needs? students with special needs?

Do you think the mathematics Do you think the mathematics accommodations you have accommodations you have learned about are effective for learned about are effective for any student?any student?

What are some additional What are some additional mathematics accommodations? mathematics accommodations?

Mathematics Mathematics Accommodations for Accommodations for

All StudentsAll Students

By: Roxie StewartBy: Roxie Stewart

OverviewOverview Accommodations for Accommodations for Mathematics Mathematics

Use of Organization Use of Organization Use of Highlighting Use of Highlighting Use of ManipulativesUse of ManipulativesUse of Time Management Use of Time Management

Use of Use of OrganizationOrganization

Teach students how to Teach students how to organize organize

Allow students to use Allow students to use graph paper graph paper

Enable students to Enable students to transcribe problems transcribe problems

Use of Use of HighlightingHighlighting

Help students to compute Help students to compute Remind students to regroup Remind students to regroup Provides a visual cue to Provides a visual cue to

change computational change computational operations and operations and remembering directions remembering directions

Use of Use of ManipulativesManipulatives Provide concrete and semi Provide concrete and semi

concrete representations concrete representations Hands- on- activities Hands- on- activities

Use of Time Use of Time ManagementManagement

Keep students on task Keep students on task Alert students for Alert students for

transitions transitions Display daily activities Display daily activities

Websites on Websites on MathematicsMathematics

Math Accommodations Web SiteMath Accommodations Web Sitehttp://www.specialconnections.ku.edu/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/specconn/print.phttp://www.specialconnections.ku.edu/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/specconn/print.php?path=./page/instruction/ia/casechp?path=./page/instruction/ia/casec

Talk Time!Talk Time!Name the four accommodations Name the four accommodations

-Organization-Organization

-Highlighting-Highlighting

-Manpulatives-Manpulatives

-Time Management -Time Management

Name some accommodations that Name some accommodations that YOU YOU used to learn Math? used to learn Math?

Did you feel as a special need student? Did you feel as a special need student?