Described is a strategy for teaching elementary or secondary level students to use a self-monitoring procedure and a mnemonic device to help students independently solve multidigit subtraction problems sometimes requiring regrouping. (DB)

The Research Institute for the Study of Learning Disabilities, established at Teachers College, Columbia University, was guided by the postulation that academic failure experienced by learning-disabled children results from interaction between the way they process information and the information processing demands of the instructional methods…