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Jessica H. Hunt; Kristi Martin – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2024
Productive engagement in fractional reasoning is essential for abstracting fundamental algebraic concepts vital to college and career success. Yet, data suggest students with learning disabilities (LDs), in particular, display pervasive shortfalls in learning and mastering fraction content. We argue that shortfalls in understanding are in fact…
Descriptors: Fractions, Mathematics Skills, Thinking Skills, Algebra
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Grobecker, Betsey – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2000
This article describes constructivist principles of learning in geometry specific to children's imaginal anticipations in line measurement and fractions. Application with seven sixth grade students with learning disabilities found that students had difficulty coordinating and imagining second-order and higher nested relationships that could be…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Constructivism (Learning), Fractions, Grade 6