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Peer reviewedThornton, Carol A.; Toohey, Margaret A. – Teaching Exceptional Children, 1986
Learning disabled elementary school children can learn subtraction skills with the aid of "hide and seek" number concept cards and a five-step sequence: (1) find a way to work it out, (2) add to check, (3) look for subtraction "partners," (4) group facts into "families," and (5) practice. (CB)
Descriptors: Cues, Elementary Education, Instructional Materials, Learning Disabilities
Thornton, Carol A.; Toohey, Margaret A. – 1985
Guidelines are presented for modifying basic instruction of subtraction facts for elementary level learning disabled students. A detailed case study is used to illustrate a five-step structured program: (1) find a way to work it out; (2) add to check; (3) learn the partner facts; (4) study families of facts; (5) review and practice. The selection…
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Audiovisual Aids, Cognitive Style, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedThornton, Carol A.; And Others – Arithmetic Teacher, 1980
Described are activities and games incorporating a technique of "one step" which is used with children with learning difficulties. The purpose of "one step" is twofold, to minimize difficulties with typical trouble spots and to keep the step size of the instruction small. (Author/TG)
Descriptors: Addition, Division, Elementary Education, Elementary School Mathematics
Peer reviewedThornton, Carol A. – Arithmetic Teacher, 1989
Discusses developmentally appropriate activities for teaching counting skills for kindergarten and early first-grade programs. Describes four activities: (1) counting on; (2) counting back; (3) auditory patterning; and (4) visual patterning based on the 10-frame. (YP)
Descriptors: Addition, Cognitive Development, Computation, Elementary School Mathematics
Peer reviewedThornton, Carol A. – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 1990
In two parallel one-year studies, solution strategies for subtraction number facts and achievement patterns of matched groups of first graders in two different instructional programs were examined. Significant differences between groups were found favoring the strategy approach. (Author/CW)
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Structures, Elementary Education
Peer reviewedThornton, Carol A.; Smith, Paula J. – Arithmetic Teacher, 1988
This article describes the instructional efforts and success of two first grade teachers who cooperated in a year-long subtraction study with a university research team. Performance profiles of students in the experimental and control groups are presented, and implications for teaching are discussed. (PK)
Descriptors: Basic Skills, College School Cooperation, Computation, Concept Formation
Thornton, Carol A. – 1987
This teacher resource material was written from the perspective that it is possible to improve number fact learning in the primary grades, and in remedial situations beyond those years, in ways that: (1) will help children learn all facts; (2) will emphasize the process as well as the answer; and (3) by capitalizing upon natural extensions of…
Descriptors: Addition, Basic Skills, Class Activities, Concept Formation
