I wanted to start this blog about Special Education and Mathematics as there are so many students who are in Special Education and so few Special Education Teachers that are also certified in Mathematics content. This site will be sharing resourses and tips for keeping mathematics problems rich for a variety of learners. My hope is that teachers will learn to look beyond having students just being able to do computations that can be done with calculators and allowing Special Education students access to rich problems that will allow them to think deeply.
I am including “A Mathematician’s Lament” by Paul Lockhart. I had always felt like this in school and had no interest in mathematics. It wasn’t until I was able to understand the math and work with rich problems that I ever even started liking mathematics.
http://www.maa.org/external_archive/devlin/LockhartsLament.pdf
Here are some site to get folks started with learning about disabilities in Mathematics.
http://www.ncld.org/types-learning-disabilities/dyscalculia?gclid=CK_5sebg4rwCFRJo7AodnAQA4A
http://learningdisabilities.about.com/od/learningdisabilitybasics/p/ldbasicmath.htm
http://www.cldinternational.org/infosheets/mathdisabilities.asp
My wish is to have amthematic classes such as the one below where students are excited to be in class!
