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  • Counting Money as a Game

    The Allowance Game is retail game tailored to students who are learning to count money.   I revised it to make it more authentic and more functional. I changed some money amounts to necessitate the use of pennies (see below) I use real dollars and cents to provide more opportunities to handle real money I…

  • Asking for Examples of Mastery for IEP Objectives

    To ensure the IEP team is on the same page as to what mastery of an objective looks like, the person writing the objective can take two steps: provide an example problem that would be used to assess mastery (and the example problem would have the same language as used in the objective) provide an…

  • Data Collection for IEP Objectives

    Data Collection for IEP Objectives

    Here is an example of what data collection can look like. (The IEP objective should have been indicated on here as well.) It shows the data, any prompting from the teacher (P with a circle around it), notes and at the bottom is 3/9 for 33% correct. Also note that I was working on finding…

  • Assessment of a Math Objective

    Assessment of a Math Objective

    List all the steps for the objective. Use this table (above) as a pretest to identify gaps. Provide instruction on the gaps. In the photo below I used color coding to show what to multiply and scaffolding to align the digits in ONES and TENS place. NOTE: I provide the problems with some steps already…

  • Scaffolding Higher Level Math Topics

    The graph shown involves derivatives – a calculus level topic. Before getting into this heavier mathy stuff, consider the title of this post and the other content presented on this blog. Making math accessible to all students is not a special ed or a low level math thing. It is a learning thing. This artifact…

  • Assessment for General Curriculum Math Topics

    In special education there is a tool called a task analysis. It is a formal approach of identifying the steps taken to demonstrate mastery of a skill. For example, putting on shoes with Velcro straps involves the following steps: get shoes, sit on chair, match shoes with feet (right to right), insert foot into respective…

  • In lieu of a school having to make technology available for vast numbers of kids it is possible to use personal technology. The apps identified here can be useful in a math course. Polls would allow personally relevant data collection and could lead to modeling opportunities (not on the runway, models like linear functions). Plinky…