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Old 06-18-2022, 04:00 PM   #5
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Default Re: Math Curriculum for Student with Learning Disabilities

The traditional way long division (and multi-digit multiplication IMO) is taught is complicated because it doesn't make any sense based on what we have taught kids up unto that point. Suddenly there is an "algorithm" to follow and that algorithm is NOT intuitive.

When I taught C long division, I chose to teach hang-man's division. It takes longer at first, and takes up more space at first, but it is intuitive. He could now do long division a more traditional way now that he really "owns" how long division works, but why change something that isn't broken.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v50Z4K3Qoyg

I also did not teach C the traditional method of multi-digit multiplication either. I taught him the lattice method which is a shorthand version of the box method which is built off of blocks so is very intuitive for kids. I started with blocks, through the block method, and then lattice for shorthand. I have switched to this method of multiplication myself because there are fewer errors, it takes up less space, and it is easier to double check.

He still struggled for a while, but it was because his math facts memorization took forever for him and so he had very little confidence. He just had to learn the math facts himself, internalizing and being able to visualize them. He is not a kid that memorizes anything. Neither are DH and I. So that took a bit longer and so the longer stuff was a bit of a struggle as he was still working that out. Something clicked with the facts more recently and he is doing great with these long problems now. Even when he struggled with math facts, hang man division in particular was still very useful because he could always multiply by 10 or 100 or 1 and just take loads of extra steps to get to the answer.
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