[blindkid] Math for kindergarten

[Penny Duffy]

Laurie..
Its important to remember that numbers are NOT hard to learn. Its not
saying that some children who have delays in other areas may struggle to
learn them but they are not any harder to learn then print letters. They
follow right behind learning the letters just like a sighted child
would. Did she learn her letters only recently?

Manipulatives are great and can be really invaluable learning concepts
but it should replace a child doing their own work. Its also important to
remember that she will learn her numbers (and letters) quicker by using
them.  Just like reading. Maybe she makes some mistakes but she is in
kindergarten.

If the concern is she is going to overwhelm doing the assignment in pieces.
 One day give her problems verbally but have her answer in braille.  Have
her read the problems in braille and give you the answers verbally.  Than
ease her into doing both.


The goal is always to get her to be doing the same work as her peers.   You
lose part of the lesson by only doing work verbally.  You daughter may
surprise everyone if she is given a chance to succeed.


-- 
--Penny
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On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 8:15 PM, L <lburns24 at yahoo.com> wrote:

>  My daughter is five years old in a regluar ed kindergarten class.  Her
> TVI comes into the classroom for math as well as adapts materials for the
> teacher/aid to use during a second part of math later.  The TVI just said
> to me that the class is starting to learn addition and that the braille
> math code is Nemeth. She said my daughter does not yet have a solid
> understanding of her literary numbers, so she doesn't feel comfortable
> moving ahead and teaching her the Nemeth numbers necessary to write out
> addition problems. They said she will be will be learning the concept of
> addition, and she will be
> learning this with manipulatives. She will not, however, be writing math
> problems right now. They will of course still use the appropriate math
> language (ie: ___ plus ___ equals ___) they just won't be asking her to
> write it out right now. She will be completing her work verbally, for now.
> They are working on identifying and writing literary numbers.
>
> I just want to make sure...Is this what others did?  Do you wait to do
> Nemeth until there is a solid understanding of numbers first?  Thank you!
> Laurie Wages - mother of Hannah, Fredericksburg, VA
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