Math Inclusion Resources and Strategies
Consider these instructional actions when teaching mathematics to students with disabilities in an inclusive setting:
Misunderstood Minds thinks about what areas could be affecting progress in learning. All Kinds of Minds considers options to support students with specific challenges.
Boston Public Schools provides specific resources to support you in planning your mathematical curriculum.
This Weebly has a number of math supports to consider: Ten Frames and Subitizing.
Illustrative Mathematics The Illustrative Mathematics Project uses high quality, rigorously reviewed tasks from teacher leaders across the nation to illustrate each of the Common Core State standards for Mathematics.
Common Core Tools Blog about resources related to CCSSM implementation
Inside Mathematics
Mathematics Assessment Project The Mathematics Assessment Project (MAP), a collaboration between the University of California at Berkeley and the Shell Centre at the University of Nottingham with support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, offers formative assessment lessons and summative tasks to support implementation of the CCSSM.
K-5 Mathematics Resources This site provides an extensive collection of free resources, math games, and hands-on math activities aligned with the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics.
Achieve the Core - Steal the Tools
You may also want to review the Common Core Math Standards
Counting and Cardinality
Operations and Algebraic Thinking
Number and Operations in Base Ten
Measurement and Data
Geometry
Number and Operations—Fractions (Grade 3 Only)
You may also enjoy read articles about how to support inclusion in mathematics:
Learning Math Facts and more Ideas
Helping Students with Mathematical Disabilities Succeed
An Overview of Dyscalculia
Math Instruction and Behavior Problems
Teaching the Meaning of the Equal Sign
"Going Beyond The Math Wars"
- New material presented in explicit, small steps and linked to prior knowledge (developing knowledge, skills and understanding that move from simple to complex)
- Pre-teaching of expected prior knowledge, strategies, concepts, procedures and skills necessary for learning new related concepts
- Guided practice with extensive independent practice, discussion and application experiences. Prompt feedback that allows for relearning.
- Additional teaching and learning experiences at each phase of learning (acquisition, fluency, maintenance, generalization) with multiple opportunities to construct meaning
- Instructional scaffolding (visual aids, examples and non-examples to illustrate a concept, partial solutions, teacher questioning, manipulatives)
- Developing understanding of mathematics-specific language through the use of synonyms, definitions and meanings of prefixes
- Demonstrating cognitive strategies to support problem-solving, such as visualising, verbalizing, self-questioning/monitoring, highlighting key information and procedural prompts
- Link assessment and teaching
- Incorporate sensory elements: visual, auditory, and kinesthetic ones, like movement, re-enacting, video, manipulatives...
- Focus on “big ideas” - that is generalizable concepts rather than individual details.
- Mathematical understandings can be facilitated by progressing from concrete representations of quantity, to semi-concrete, and finally abstract representations.
- Develop a conceptual understanding of the material, instead of focusing on memorization and procedural instruction.
Misunderstood Minds thinks about what areas could be affecting progress in learning. All Kinds of Minds considers options to support students with specific challenges.
Boston Public Schools provides specific resources to support you in planning your mathematical curriculum.
This Weebly has a number of math supports to consider: Ten Frames and Subitizing.
Illustrative Mathematics The Illustrative Mathematics Project uses high quality, rigorously reviewed tasks from teacher leaders across the nation to illustrate each of the Common Core State standards for Mathematics.
Common Core Tools Blog about resources related to CCSSM implementation
Inside Mathematics
Mathematics Assessment Project The Mathematics Assessment Project (MAP), a collaboration between the University of California at Berkeley and the Shell Centre at the University of Nottingham with support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, offers formative assessment lessons and summative tasks to support implementation of the CCSSM.
K-5 Mathematics Resources This site provides an extensive collection of free resources, math games, and hands-on math activities aligned with the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics.
Achieve the Core - Steal the Tools
You may also want to review the Common Core Math Standards
Counting and Cardinality
Operations and Algebraic Thinking
Number and Operations in Base Ten
Measurement and Data
Geometry
Number and Operations—Fractions (Grade 3 Only)
You may also enjoy read articles about how to support inclusion in mathematics:
Learning Math Facts and more Ideas
Helping Students with Mathematical Disabilities Succeed
An Overview of Dyscalculia
Math Instruction and Behavior Problems
Teaching the Meaning of the Equal Sign
"Going Beyond The Math Wars"