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Herold, Katherine H.; Bock, Allison M.; Murphy, Melissa M.; Mazzocco, Michèle M. M. – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2020
When a student struggles with a mathematics task, adults may rephrase or expand initial task instructions to clarify instructions or scaffold problem solving. Yet expanded instructions may not benefit all children, especially children with a mathematics learning disability (MLD). Here, we explore whether expanded instructions differentially affect…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Mathematics Instruction, Fractions, Learning Disabilities
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Zhang, Dake; Stecker, Pamela; Beqiri, Klesti – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2017
We examined faulty strategies with possible underlying misconceptions, as well as execution mistakes, among middle schoolers with and without mathematics disabilities when estimating fractions on number lines. Fifty-one middle schoolers participated in this study, including 27 students with mathematics disabilities. Participants were asked to…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Mathematics Skills, Middle School Students, Computation