Teaching Mathematics Meaningfully: Solutions for Reaching Struggling Learners

Teaching Mathematics Meaningfully: Solutions for Reaching Struggling Learners

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<DIV><P>Making mathematics concepts understandable is a challenge for any teacher—a challenge that's more complex when a classroom includes students with learning difficulties. With this highly practical resource, educators will have just what they need to teach mathematics with confidence: research-based strategies that really work with students who have learning disabilities, ADHD, or mild cognitive disabilities. This urgently needed guidebook helps teachers</P><ul><B><li>Understand why students struggle.</B>Teachers will discover how the common learning characteristics of students with learning difficulties create barriers to understanding mathematics.</li><B><li>Review the Big Ideas.</B> Are teachers focusing on the right things? A helpful primer on major NCTM-endorsed mathematical concepts and processes helps them be sure.</li><B><li>Directly address students' learning barriers.</B> With the lesson plans, practical strategies, photocopiable information-gathering forms, and online strategies in action, teachers will have concrete ways to help students grasp mathematical concepts, improve their proficiency, and generalize knowledge in multiple contexts.</li><B><li>Check their own strengths and needs.</B> Educators will reflect critically on their current practices with a thought-provoking questionnaire.</li></ul><P>With this timely book—filled with invaluable ideas and strategies adaptable for grades K–12—educators will know just what to teach and how to teach it to students with learning difficulties.</P></DIV>