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Helping Students with Emotional and Behavioral Disorders Solve Mathematics Word Problems
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Alter, Peter – Preventing School Failure, 2012
The author presents a strategy for helping students with emotional and behavioral disorders become more proficient at solving math word problems. Math word problems require students to go beyond simple computation in mathematics (e.g., adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing) and use higher level reasoning that includes recognizing relevant…
Descriptors: Behavior Disorders, Problem Solving, Token Economy, Word Problems (Mathematics)