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Teaching Multiplication Facts to Students with Learning Difficulties

Teaching Multiplication Facts to Students with Learning Difficulties. A Graduate Research Project. By Theresa L. Lemus Santos. The Problem. The overarching problem is that students with disabilities have difficulty learning multiplication facts. Why??. Existing Research….

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Teaching Multiplication Facts to Students with Learning Difficulties

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  1. Teaching Multiplication Facts to Students with Learning Difficulties

  2. A Graduate Research Project By Theresa L. Lemus Santos

  3. The Problem

  4. The overarching problem is that students with disabilities have difficulty learning multiplication facts. Why??

  5. Existing Research… • Smith and Smith, 2006 - retention and comprehension • Masoura, 2006 - working memory • Burns, 2005 - Processing • Stading and Williams, 1996 - use counting

  6. How do students with disabilities learn best? Williams and Collins, 1994 • 3 modalities • 3 stages

  7. The Project

  8. Using the Research of… • Williams and Collins, 1994 • Brookhart, Andolina, Zuza, and Furman, 2004 - Self assessment To design a program to teach multiplication facts…

  9. The Concrete Stage In this stage, multiplication facts revolve around a physical model of a key. FOR EXAMPLE: 3 x 6 would be…

  10. 18

  11. The Semi-Concrete Stage Varies from the concrete stage

  12. Symbolic Stage Presents the facts in their traditional form. 3 x 6 = 18

  13. Methodology Used

  14. The Groups • Students with Disabilities Experimental and Control Group Consist of 7 students each • General Education Students Experimental and Control Group Consist of 20 and 21 students respectively

  15. The Instruction • Two 30-minute sessions per week • Experimental Group: The program • Control Group: Traditional flash cards • The Hypothesis • Pre-test/Post-test • Fact quizzes and student self-assessment

  16. Findings

  17. Table 1. Results of t-Test for Independent Means: Students with Disabilities

  18. Table 1. Results of t-Test for Independent Means: General Education Students

  19. Conclusions

  20. The Results • Pre-test scores low • Means of the Posttests • T-test results

  21. Implications For Education

  22. Use of multi-sensory approach • Concrete to Symbolic • Student Self-assessment

  23. References

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  25. Robinson, K. M., Arbuthnott, K. D., & Gibbons, K. A. (2002). Adults’ representation of division facts: A consequence of learning history? Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 56, 302-309. • Smith, S. Z., & Smith M. E. (2006). Assessing elementary understanding of multiplication concepts. School Science & Mathematics, 106(3), 140-149. • Stading, M., & Williams, R. L. (1996). Effects of a copy, cover, and compare procedure on multiplication facts mastery with a third grade girl with learning disabilities in a home setting. Education and Treatment of Children, 19(4), 425-434. • Steel, S., & Funnell, E. (2001). Learning multiplication facts: A study of children taught by discovery methods in England. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 79(1),37-55. • Williams, D. M., & Collins, B.C. (1994). Teaching multiplication facts to students with learning disabilities: Teacher-selected versus student-selected material prompts within the delay procedure. Journal of Learning Disabilities, 27, 589-597. • Wood, D. K., & Frank, A. R. (2000). Using memory-enhancing strategies to learn multiplication facts. Teaching Exceptional Children, 32(5), 78-82. • Wood, D. K., Frank, A. R., & Wacker D. P. (1998). Teaching multiplication facts to students with learning disabilities. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 31, 323-338.

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