Teaching student math problem-solving through graphic representations

From: Teaching Exceptional Children | Date: March 1, 2002| Author: | Copyright information

Lisa is an 8-year-old third grader who receives special education services in a learning support classroom for mathematics and reading. She has little confidence in her problem-solving ability and has a phobia for mathematics. When asked to solve word problems, Lisa typically grabs all the numbers in the problem and starts to add rather than pause to understand the nature of the problem she has to solve. Many students who take Lisa's approach to problem-solving-often students with learning disabilities and those at risk for math failure-become unsuccessful problem-solvers.

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