Low Tech and Mid Tech Adaptations for Math Assignments

This post will touch on several adaptations ranging from low tech to high tech on the assistive technology continuum for teaching math.


Manipulatives are  low tech adaptations which have been traditional instructional materials for years, and can be helpful to students with poor fine motor skills.


Onion Mountain Technology makes fraction rubber stamps, a manipulative number line, laminated addition and multiplication tables, and rulers that have transparent overlays. These help students understand the relationship between the different units of measure.


Large Calculators have over sized buttons and are useful for students who have poor motor control or visual impairments.


Talking Calculators provide feedback to students by checking their work aloud by every keystroke that the student enters. Talking calculators also assist students who have poor vision by showing the entire math problem on the screen.


Coin Abacus is a mid tech adaptation that has keys which are shaped and sized like coins. This is designed and used specifically to teach basic money counting skills.

                                        

Reference Below
Dell, A., Newtown, D., & Petroff, J. (2012). Assistive Technology in the Classroom. 
 Upper Saddle River, NJ. Pearson Education Inc.

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