Category: intervention
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Game Time: An Intervention to Support Teachers and Students in Complex Times Learning Mathematics Through Joy
Presenters: Dr. Rachel Lambert (UCSB), Tomy Nguyen (Alder University, UCSB), Jenny Goldberg (UCSB) In an effort to bring joy to math intervention by using non-digital games that are fun and accessible for all students, whether or not they have been identified as being “in need of intervention,” we provided a…
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13 thoughts on math teaching and intervention as we enter the 2021 school year
I have trying to write this post all summer. Each time I try, I want it to be more focused. Yet each time I revisit this idea I feel there are more things to add! So here we are, with the cumbersome number of 13 thoughts on math teaching as…
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Intervention in Participation
On Saturday, 11/5/16 I did a presentation at PME-NA in Tucson about a research review I recently did on increasing the participation of students with LD in mathematical problem solving and discussion. The basic idea is this: why is intervention in mathematics always focused on content. Could we also design intervention in…
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Our Kids Are Not Swiss Cheese!
This blog post was co-written by Andrew Gael and myself, and available on both our blogs. A couple of years ago, Andrew Gael and myself were talking about how students in special education are conceptualized. We were sick of hearing about the “gaps” and the “holes” in our student’s learning.…
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How to help kids use more complex strategies in multiplication? Give them harder problems.
Zhang, D., Xin, Y. P., & Si, L. (2013). Transition from Intuitive to Advanced Strategies in Multiplicative Reasoning for Students with Math Difficulties. Journal of Special Education, 47(1), 50–64. I love this article because it uses constructivism to understand the development of three kids with disabilities in learning multiplication, particularly drawing from the…
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Mindset
A great introduction to mindset from Jo Boaler. Mindset is incredibly important for kids with disabilities in mathematics. Too often, kids with disabilities are given the impression that they lack the ability to do complex mathematics. And, perversely, when kids are labeled LD, they are often told that they are…
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Designing intervention on the landscape of learning
In 1999, I was working as a special educator in an inclusive elementary school. My ideas about mathematics instruction were old-fashioned. A few of my fifth-grade students had particular difficulties in multiplication, and it was hard to see what they could do—I was so focused on what they couldn’t do. …
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Designing intervention in operations
In Models of Intervention in Mathematics, edited by Cathy Fosnot and published by NCTM in 2010, Susan Jo Russell wrote a piece called “The habit of reasoning: Uncovering competence through focused instruction.” I love this piece because it gives a structure to how teachers can plan intervention with kids that…
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