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This article is about how Strategy Instruction helps students with learning disabilities. The teachers use different strategies in order to help students with learning disability learn and understand math. Some of the strategies that are talked about is by using memory devices such as mnemonics, strategy steps that are sequenced appropriately, strategy steps that are prompt and precise, and get the student to ask themselves if they checked their own problem and if they used all the steps they needed to. Math, especially word problems, is hard for students with any learning disability. Strategy instruction is an effective way to help students with learning disabilities. This article really helps with my teaching content because I want to teach secondary math courses. This helps me to better understand how to better help students with learning disabilities in my class. __Source__ Dr. Maccini & Dr. Gagnon (2005) Mathematics Strategy Instruction (SI) for Middle School Students with Learning Disabilities [electronic version pdf] Retrieved on November 26th 2010 from: [] ** __Effective Math Instruction__ ** The part of this article that I focused on was how disabilities can affect math achievement. In this part of the article they talked about how several specific areas of disability are clearly connected to math learning difficulties. The article also states that specific math learning disabilities can also affect a student’s ability to formulate, represent and solve math problems. In this article it gave four of the most helpful strategies for helping students with disabilities in math, be able to understand the subject matter. The first method is systematic and explicit instruction. This is when the teacher talks the student through the needed steps. The second method is self instruction. This is when the student learns to manage their own learning. The third method is peer tutoring. This is where students are paired up and they help each other learn. The last method is visual representation. This is when visuals are incorporated in the learning process. I can use these methods to realize that when I teach students learn in different ways. Incorporating different methods in my lesson plan will make sure that I get through to each and every one of my students. __Source__ Dr. Steedly, Dragoo, Dr. Arafeh & Luke (2008) Effective Math Instuction [electronic version pfd] Retrieved on November 26th, 2010 from: [] ** __The Inclusive Classroom: Teaching Mathematics and Science to English-Language Learners__ ** This article is about how in schools these days there are a lot of students that English is not their first language. Although this article is geared more towards schools in the northeast it still very much applies to classroom all over the United States. In this article it states that normally people say that math is a universal language. However, it also states that in different countries, math symbols mean different things. For example, the comma can be used to separate whole numbers from decimals in places other than the United States. They also have problems with transition words such as, because of, with, etc. This article just really speaks about the difficulties that students where English is not their first language would face. This would help me when I teach because it brings up some really good points. I didn’t know that a comma could me other things in other countries so that I need to always make sure that I brush up on math in other countries
 * __Mathematics Strategy Instruction (SI) for Middle School Students with Learning Disabilities __ **

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Jarrett (1999) The Inclusive Classroom: Teaching Mathematics and Science to English-Language Learners [electronic version pdf] Retrieved on November 26th,2010 from: [] ** __Websites:__ ** [] This website gives suggestions about how to teach students with any kind of disability. Some of the suggestions included, give students a long time to complete assignments and/or tests and quizzes, give feedback both good and bad and make sure that instructions are clear. It also mentions to try to realize that just because other students get it, doesn’t mean they all will. All students are different and no two disabilities are the same.

[] This website gives some other suggestions about how to deal with children with disabilities in your classroom. Along with the suggestions already mentioned in the previous website this website suggests that you give everyone a syllabi so that way the student can refer back and know exactly what is asked of them, ensure the classroom is accessible and pay attention to seating needs. This website also states that every student is going to have different needs so make sure that as a teacher you listen to the needs of each of your students.