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How did Rethinking Disability and Mathematics shift secondary math teachers’ thinking?
Of course I have been wondering this since the book was published. Last week I heard from a group of secondary teachers in the Poway Unified School District who were reading it together on Friday afternoons (!) with Math TOSA Traci Jackson. She sent me their final reflections (with their permission):…
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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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The value of insider narratives
I love research. I do it, I write about it, and I read it daily. I absolutely love learning about education well studied. It is one way I learn about disability and neurodiversity. But I also have learned a tremendous amount from people in my circle: family, neighbors, friends, and…
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Resources for Webinar
Here are the resources I mention for today’s webinar on Unpacking Research Claims About the Teaching and Learning of Mathematics with NCTM. https://www.nctm.org/online-learning/Webinars/Details/686 Description: Multiple documents exist to help math teachers understand the research behind teaching and learning mathematics, from the CCSS to IES practice guides. Increasingly, math educators face…
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Counting Collections and Inclusion
I love Counting Collections. As a classroom teacher, I would always have my students count everything in the classroom, differentiating based on what number set they needed. We would work on representing numbers, and we would use charts to represent groups of ten, pushing understanding of place value. We didn’t…
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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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New research on how learners in special education intuitively and accurately use indirect addition for subtraction
For far too long, the assumption has been that learners with disabilities cannot benefit from constructivist mathematics instruction. This assumption, in my opinion, is based on the highly erroneous idea that kids with disabilities cannot think for themselves, but must be spoon-fed methods. In my experience, this is not true.…
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Complex Instruction
Complex Instruction (Cohen & Lotan, 1997) is a variation on cooperative learning that has been more successful because it directly addresses issues of status and access.
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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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