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Teaching Algebra to Students with Learning Disabilities: Where Have We Come and Where Should We Go?
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Watt, Sarah J.; Watkins, Jessie R.; Abbitt, Jason – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2016
This review investigates effective interventions for teaching algebra to students with learning disabilities and evaluates the complexity and alignment of skills with the Common Core State Standards in math. The review includes the results of 10 experimental and 5 single-subject designs (N = 15) producing a moderate overall effect size (g = 0.48).…
Descriptors: Algebra, Learning Disabilities, Mathematics Instruction, Intervention
The Use of Sequenced Count-By and Constant Time Delay Methods of Teaching Basic Multiplication Facts using Parent Volunteer Tutors.
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Wilson, Margaret A.; Robinson, Gregory L. – Mathematics Education Research Journal, 1997
Presents a study exploring the effectiveness and efficiency of constant Time Delay and Sequenced Count-By procedures in the teaching of multiplication facts using children (N=43) from grades 3-6 having parents as tutors. Concludes that both procedures were effective. Appendix includes the questionnaire administered to parents and students.…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Mathematics Instruction, Multiplication, Parent Teacher Cooperation
Ability Stereotyping in Mathematics.
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Ruthven, Kenneth – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 1987
Proposes that ability is a concept central to the current practices of mathematics teaching. Argues that the widespread view that mathematics learning is an ordered progression through a hierarchy of knowledge and skills subjects students to "ability stereotyping" and serves as a gross global model. (TW)
Descriptors: Ability, Ability Identification, Academic Achievement, Attitudes
Mathematical Word-Problem-Solving Instruction for Students with Mild Disabilities and Students At Risk for Math Failure: A Research Synthesis.
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Jitendra, Asha; Xin, Yan Ping – Journal of Special Education, 1997
Summarizes 14 mathematics word-problem-solving intervention studies for elementary and secondary students with disabilities or who were at-risk for math failure. Interventions included representational techniques (diagramming), strategy-training procedures (cognitive and metacognitive), task variations (sequencing and word-problem context), and…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Computer Assisted Instruction, Diagrams, Elementary Secondary Education
Programs, '63: A Guide to Programed Instructional Materials Available to Educators by September 1963. Bulletin, 1964, No. 3. OE-34015-63. [Part I]
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Hanson, Lincoln F., Ed. – Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1963
This bulletin lists materials available in the fall of 1963 to assist educators in their selections of programmed instruction materials, and updates the inaugural issue, "Programs '62." Since the 1962 edition provided a number of first analyses of programmed material available, some of the present statistical data have been related to last year's…
Descriptors: Educational History, Programmed Instructional Materials, Guides, Teaching Methods
Programs, '63: A Guide to Programed Instructional Materials Available to Educators by September 1963. Bulletin, 1964, No. 3. OE-34015-63. [Part II]
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Hanson, Lincoln F. – Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1963
This bulletin lists materials available in the fall of 1963 to assist educators in their selections of programmed instruction materials, and updates the inaugural issue, "Programs '62." Since the 1962 edition provided a number of first analyses of programmed material available, some of the present statistical data have been related to last year's…
Descriptors: Educational History, Programmed Instructional Materials, Guides, Teaching Methods