Helping Students With Mathematical Disabilities to Succeed

Wadlington, Elizabeth; Wadlington, Patrick L.

doi:10.3200/psfl.53.1.2-7

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“…This confirms the hypothesis and implies that student interaction with the use of the technology, and not just the use of the technology by the instructor, can play a major role in the improvement of student engagement that results in a better accuracy of the mathematical concepts. In confirmation, the use of technology in a mathematics classroom can decrease mathematical errors since it helps students to focus more and have less idle time in the classroom (Wadlington & Wadlington, 2008). Although the sample size of the participants was small, and may question the validity of the results, the high decrease in mathematical errors should encourage mathematics instructors to use technology in the classroom.…”

Section: International Journal Of Research In Education and Science (mentioning

confidence: 97%

A Literature Review: The Effect of Implementing Technology in a High School Mathematics Classroom

Murphy¹

2016

IJRES

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This study is a literature review to investigate the effects of implementing technology into a high school mathematics classroom. Mathematics has a hierarchical structure in learning and it is essential that students get a firm understanding of mathematics early in education. Some students that miss beginning concepts may continue to struggle with mathematical computation and concepts throughout the educational experience. One learning strategy that can be implemented throughout the curriculum that can help students succeed in mathematics is the use of technology in the pedagogy of the classroom. To this end, this literature review is to stimulate reflection on the effect of using technology in the high school mathematics classroom since it can help engage students in the learning process, allow students to have a higher accuracy with computational tasks, help create a less-anxious mathematics environment for students, help motivate students, and help students get a deeper understanding of the mathematical content.

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Section: International Journal Of Research In Education and Science (mentioning

confidence: 97%

A Literature Review: The Effect of Implementing Technology in a High School Mathematics Classroom

Murphy¹

2016

IJRES

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“…Gersten et al (2009) found that the use of heuristics and explicit instruction provided ''important increases in effect size'' (p. 1228). Explicit instruction would be familiar to many special needs teachers who use concrete materials such as Cuisenaire rods and paddle Australian Journal of Learning Difficulties 11 pop sticks (Bird, 2007;Wadlington & Wadlington, 2008). For many years, teachers have felt that multi-sensory instruction, together with the use of games, might be efficacious in helping children to learn.…”

Section: Remediation Of Dyscalculiamentioning

confidence: 98%

A teacher's perspective of dyscalculia: Who counts? An interdisciplinary overview

Williams

2013

Australian Journal of Learning Difficulties

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There are many reasons why children have difficulties with mathematics. Dyscalculia is one of them. Teachers need to know what dyscalculia is in order to effectively assist the child to overcome the challenges it presents. However, the literature on the remediation of dyscalculia is in its infancy. The potential for multidisciplinary research is great, but would require maths educators to become involved in this issue, where previously they have been silent. Successful teachers know their students and value knowledge that will help them to help their students. As well as knowing what dyscalculia is, teachers need to understand its causes and have effective strategies to deal with it. Teachers also need to know how dyscalculia affects a child's self-belief system in order to counter the potentially devastating effects of poor self-esteem. Reportedly, there is an incidence rate of 5% in Australian schools, yet there is a lack of recognition, identification and diagnosis of dyscalculia despite the fact that the behavioural characteristics of dyscalculia are well defined and generally agreed on. There are a number of reasons why the diagnosis of dyscalculia is masked. The existence of another (possibly previously diagnosed specific learning disability) is one of them; for example 50% of dyslexics have dyscalculia. This paper seeks to address the ''who, what, how and why'' of dyscalculia.

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“…La compétence d'explication, première compétence essentielle à acquérir, est liée aux langages naturel, symbolique et graphique (Terssac, 1996, cité par Caron, 2004Wadlington et Wadlington, 2008). Cette compétence d'explication ne peut être acquise qu'en partie si les quatre sous-compétences suivantes qu'on lui associe, présentées par ordre d'acquisition, ne sont pas toutes développées : l'association, la compréhension, la structuration et la reformulation (Caron, 2004).…”

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Des outils multimédias en ligne pour apprendre des concepts enmathématiques

Racette

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Bégin

2016

mje

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SAMI-Persévérance est un dispositif d’aide en ligne qui offre, entre autres, des outils d’aide en mathématiques au niveau postsecondaire. Les étudiants peuvent accéder aux outils d’aide par les moyens suivants : par mots-clés, par carte conceptuelle ou par l’outil de dépistage des difficultés en mathématiques. Les données recueillies dans le dispositif révèlent que 4 773 choix d’outils d’aide ont été faits (par l’outil de dépistage dans 72 % des cas), 2 873 énoncés de difficultés ont été cochés, et deux questionnaires sur la dyscalculie ont présenté un résultat positif. Ces données laissent supposer que les étudiants ont apprécié ces outils qui leur ont permis de connaître leurs faiblesses et de mieux comprendre les notions de base en mathématiques.

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Helping Students With Mathematical Disabilities to Succeed

Cited by 37 publications

References 9 publications

A Literature Review: The Effect of Implementing Technology in a High School Mathematics Classroom

A Literature Review: The Effect of Implementing Technology in a High School Mathematics Classroom

A teacher's perspective of dyscalculia: Who counts? An interdisciplinary overview

Des outils multimédias en ligne pour apprendre des concepts enmathématiques

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