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Jessica Baumhower

Making Math Accessible: When will they stop ignoring students with disabilities? - 3 views

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shared by Jessica Baumhower on 25 Mar 12 - No Cached
  • Jessica Baumhower on 25 Mar 12
     
    I really try to look for things that pertain to high school math. In this article (which was just released) they writer harps on the fact that math is really lacking these days. There has to be better ways that students can utilize technology with math problems. There are reading programs but most do not have math symbols wrote in the program and cannot recognize the text.
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  • Mark Clark on 25 Mar 12
     
    Jessica: I appreciate your site on accessibility for math students. Historically, math is the subject area that is preventing students from getting a high school standard diploma. In my co-taught math class, we allow students to use calculators and students are allowed to send a text message if they are struggling on a concept. We have found that student are much more willing to handle higher math concepts because of the use of the calculator and shy students are much more willing to text a question to my co-teacher or me. Now that I've seen how podcast works, I will be incorporating that into my lesson.
  • Laurie Heintz on 25 Mar 12
     
    Jessica, I agree with mark. I see more students, at ALL ability levels struggling with math than any other subject. I see technology as a way of helping students so much, even with (as mark says) with something so simple as texting. When a student doesn't understand something for an extended time, they stop asking for help and often give up.
  • Tori Nelson on 25 Mar 12
     
    I am with you when it comes to finding things that pertain to your area of expertise. I do not teach math currently, but I do know how much of a struggle it is for my partner teacher. Kids these days have terrible number sense, it's unreal. It blows my mind that they can multiple two, two digit numbers together and get a 4 or 5 digit number...and see nothing wrong with it. This goes for students of all ability levels. It's nuts. And those with learning disabilities are no different. It's the saddest part of our job when those students get overlooked.
  • Gloria Braxton on 26 Mar 12
     
    I agree Tori, so many of our kids come in with so much deficit. Many of the years of deficit are the result of environmental influence, but how is it that so many of us older students still know our facts while skill and drill is not considered a method that is viable anymore. Many as Laurie has said, have given up and don't even try anymore.
Gloria Braxton

REQUIRED DISCUSSION: Increasing Awareness about Web Access Barriers - 47 views

Again, this is truly a disservice to people with special needs. Facebook is supposed to be the big social network that has the voice of the world. I don't hear everyone's voice being represented ba...

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