Teaching Basic Math : Strategies & Materials for Students with Learning Challenges

Teach basic maths skills to your students with math difficulties. After listening to customers' feedback, we have consolidated the author's previous books -- "Teaching Math to People with Down Syndrome" and "Other Hands-On Learners, Books 1 & 2" -- into this accessible, one-stop guide to teaching fundamental and functional maths concepts. And now, refreshed content helps even more students beyond those with Down syndrome, to include children and adults with autism, intellectual disability, and other learning challenges.

This is maths for the real world -- counting with meaning, adding the scores in a game, and tracking time in order to keep to a schedule. Written in a user-friendly style, 'Teaching Basic Math' provides math strategies and activities that are relevant to daily living, offers hands-on practice, and gives opportunity for successful completion. It covers: Prenumber Concepts; Counting; Recognition & Writing of Numbers; Time & Measurement; Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication & Division; Fractions; Money; Calculator Use.

The included Appendices, available to photocopy, are chockfull of over 150 activities -- worksheets, games, and teaching aids -- to practice math skills (see below for companion CD-ROM). Parents and teachers can use the comprehensive coverage of maths concepts to tailor to students' needs at home and in the community, incorporate into IEPs, and help students access the general education curriculum. Use as a companion product to "Teaching Basic Math Activities & Games CD-ROM" (9781606132739).