Making Maths Accessible to Students with Special Needs yr 6-8

Making MATHS Accessible to Students with Special Needs - Practical Tips and Suggestions
Incorporating the 5Es of Learning: Engage - Explore - Explain - Elaborate - Evaluate

 Students thrive when educators believe that we can teach all children. Making Maths Accessible to Students With Special Needs - Practical Tips and Suggestions helps teachers deliver effective and engaging mathematics instruction to students with special needs aged between 15 and 18+. This resource actively involves readers through student case studies,reflective questions and learning tasks; it can be used as a selfstudy professional development tool or group book study.

It offers solutions to the challenges of mathematics education by:

Exploring educational policies, research-based instructional best practices in mathematics, and accommodations for instruction and assessment
Identifying various student needs, such as organisational deficits or abstract reasoning difficulties, and showing how to support each one
Explaining the 5E instructional model: Engage - Explore - Explain - Elaborate - Evaluate - and providing a sample 5E lesson plan with clear objectives and materials checklists
Analysing myths and realities regarding mathematics instruction
Providing tools and reflective exercises to plan and direct dynamic mathematics lessons for students with special needs in years in the early years of formal education.

Table of Contents

• The 5Es of Learning: Engage - Explore - Explain - Elaborate - Evaluate
• Introduction
• Transformational Change
• Principles of Response to Intervention
• The Goal of Making Maths Accessible to Students With Special Needs
• Why Do We Need to Make Mathematics Accessible to All Students?
• Creating a Supportive Classroom Environment
• Understanding High-Quality, Effective Instruction
• Accommodating Mathematics for Students With Special Needs
• The 5E Instructional Model
• Creating and Adapting Lessons for High-Quality Instruction
• Appendices