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LD and Math
LD and teaching mathematics
Question | Answer |
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What is number sense? | It is an awareness and understanding about what numbers are, their relationships, their magnitude, the relative effect of operating on numbers, including the use of mental mathematics and estimation. |
What type of instructional design benefits students struggling to learn mathematics ? | computer-aided instruction |
What strategy was shown to increase learning of mathematical concepts? | When students verbalize their math strategies they use to solve problems they increase their learning. |
Why are prenumeracy experiences so important? | Prenumeracy experiences lay the groundwork for number sense and success in mathematics. |
Name three major problems identified by Geary that inhibit the normal development of mathematical reasoning. | 1. high frequency of procedural errors 2. difficulty in representation and retrieval of arithmetic facts 3. inability 2 symbolically or visually represent or code numerical info. 4 storage in contrast 2 using words as the form for storage in the brain |
What procedural deficits do student with LD in mathematics display? | the inability to perform moderately complex addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division problems |
What percentage of students with LD exhibit difficulty in learning mathematics? | more than 60% of students with learning disabilities possess significant disabilities in mathematics (Light & DeFries, 1995) |