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The articles included in Teaching How-to’s are drawn from TEACHING Exceptional Children (TEC), a publication of The Council for Exceptional Children (CEC). TEC is published specifically for teachers and administrators of children with disabilities and children who are gifted and features practical articles that present methods and materials for classroom use as well as current issues in special education teaching and learning.

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Responsiveness to Intervention: Preventing and Identifying Mathematics Disability
Authors: Lynn S. Fuchs, Donald. L. Compton, Douglas Fuchs, Kimberly Paulsen, Joan Bryant, and Carol L. Hamlett
We set out to develop and test a comprehensive version of RTI. Our goals were to prevent and to identify math disability (MD) early, when difficulties begin to emerge, in first grade.
PDF (4p, 141k)

Benefits of Co-teaching in Secondary Mathematics Classes
Authors: Kathleen Magiera, Cynthia Smith,
Naomi Zigmond, Kelli Gebauer
This article is based on observations of real-life co-teaching programs and includes recommendations from practitioners and researchers for what co-teaching could bring to many students. The authors also examine co-teaching in view of recent mandates and required measures.
PDF (5p, 104k)

Connecting Math and Science for All Students
Authors: John F. Cawley and Teresa E. Foley.
These hands-on lessons, word problems, and opportunities for problem-solving provide systematic connections between mathematics and science.
PDF (6p, 199k)

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Teaching Students Math Problem-Solving Through Graphic Representations
Author: Asha Jitendra.
This graphic representational technique shows how to use the strategy for solving word problems and discusses how to assess students’ problem-solving performance.
PDF (5p, 83K)

Self-Talk: Strategies for Success in Math
Author: Nadine Corral, Shirin D. Antia
This article discusses turning the mathematics failure cycle of students with learning disabilities into a success cycle by using learning strategies and positive attributions. Identifies eight steps to success with learning strategies as well as six steps to positive attribution in math. The attribution theory is also explained.
PDF (4p, 62k)

Using Memory-Enhancing Strategies To Learn Multiplication Facts
Author: Donna K. Wood, Alan R. Frank
This article discusses how students with learning disabilities can use memory-enhancing strategies to remember basic multiplication facts. Step-by-step instructions are provided for using pegwords and symbols to teach multiplication. Student self-assessment and self-monitoring are discussed and an example of a student progress chart is provided.
PDF (5p, 156k)

Redoing the Numbers: Secondary Math for a Postsecondary Work World
Author: John Woodward
This article describes the Workplace Literacy Project which teaches mathematics to remedial and special education secondary students through a combination of conceptual approaches and problem-solving exercises anchored in the students' world. The approach also incorporates the use of calculators and computer software such as spreadsheets.
PDF (6p, 129k)

One Fish, Two Fish, Pretzel Fish: Learning Estimation and Other Advanced Mathematics Concepts in an Inclusive Class
Authors: Kathleen Cage Mittag, Anthony K. Van Reusen
This article describes the use of a variety of strategies to teach estimation and other mathematics concepts in an inclusive urban fifth-grade classroom. The collaborative program (involving the teacher, the mathematics consultant, and the special-education consultant) utilized cooperative learning, estimation techniques, calculators, graphic organizers, links to prior knowledge, real-life problems, and the "cue-do-review" process.
PDF (7p, 235k)