SPED 5272

Teaching Mathematics to Learners with Special Needs

Course Overview

SPED 5272 is designed to review, discuss, implement, and modify assessment and instructional techniques to meet the needs of students with mild disabilities, such as LD, ADHD, mild mental retardation, and mild behavior disorders. Participants enrolled in the class will be familiar with mathematics content and curriculum sequence (e.g., evidenced by the North Carolina Standard Course of Studies (NCSCOS). The course will endeavor to provide participants with ideas and insight that will enable them to analyze individual student’s mathematical abilities, including assessment of error patterns and an understanding of the effects of language-based disabilities on understanding math concepts. Participants will also learn, create, modify, and develop instructional techniques appropriate to teaching mathematics to students with mild disabilities. These techniques will emphasize empirically based activities that are systematic, explicit, and multi-sensory methods to teach mathematics. Finally, participants will develop lesson plans that reflect these assessment and instructional elements.

This course will be taught online with synchronous class sessions using Centra. SPED 5100, 5173, 5175, and 5270 must be completed prior to enrolling in SPED 5272.