Special Needs Mathematics - Overcoming Geometry Challenges

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Special Needs

How do we enable our Special Needs faculty to become high quality math teachers of this important and growing student population?”

“How do we ensure our children with Special Needs meet Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) state targets?”

“How do we teach math in a way that enables critical thinking and promotes general problem solving skills?

 

iRi works with districts that are serious about attaining dramatic improvement in the math performance of students with Special Needs. Programs are best suited for Special Needs-dedicated educators as well as classroom teachers who have children with Special Needs in their mainstreamed classroom.

Special Needs Mathematics

Professional Learning

Overcoming Geometry Challenges

  • Discover how to assess readiness of your Special Needs students for Geometry
  • Receive instructional strategies which simultaneously nurture the development of essential thinking skills and the content of Geometry
  • Learn to creatively focus Geometry instruction on the four “big ideas” by employing practices appropriate to students’ readiness levels
  • Explore how to extend recognition of concrete figures into the “big ideas” of Geometry by developing abstract mathematical reasoning
  • Enable students to develop a spatial cognitive framework from which to interpret relationships of numbers
  • Understand how to identify and develop those cognitive functions that enable achievement in Geometry, including labeling key concepts, figures and operations; developing visual transport of shapes; categorizing by accurate definition; allowing parallel processing, and pursuing logical evidence
  • Discover strategies to encourage inductive and deductive reasoning, hypothetical testing, and spontaneous comparisons of Geometric shapes
  • Develop process to check student performance quickly and implement targeted lesson plans before annual standardized tests