CRIN X33 - Assessment and Instruction in Math for Students with Disabilities

Course Objectives: Provide preservice teachers with curriculum-based assessment tools and strategies and a range of adaptations, modifications, and evidence-based interventions in math for students with a range of disabilities in K-12.

Prepare preservice teachers to collaborate with fellow professionals in a variety of settings for youth with a range of disabilities. 

Prepare preservice teachers to develop and refine lessons and activities based on the needs of individual students with disabilities.

Use data-based individualization to intensify instruction for youth with disabilities: use ongoing data collection, formative assessment, and feedback about student progress to intensify instruction as needed.

Provide preservice teachers with strategies for teaching life skills related to mathematics (i.e., budgeting, cooking, and financial management).

Develop strategies, adaptations, and accommodations for students with disabilities in the general classroom setting with general education peers, in collaboration with other professionals.

Develop an understanding and application of service delivery, curriculum, and instruction of students with disabilities in mathematics.

Use current mathematics-related assistive and instructional technologies to promote learning and independence for students with disabilities in the general curriculum.

Subject Matter Topics:Number systems and their structure, basic operations, and properties.

Number theory, ratio, proportion, and percent.

Algebra, more specifically: fundamental idea of equality; operations with monomials and polynomials; algebraic fractions; linear and quadratic equations and inequalities and linear systems of equations and inequalities; radicals and exponents; arithmetic and geometric sequences and series; algebraic and trigonometric functions; and transformations among graphical, tabular, and symbolic forms of functions.

Geometry, more specifically: geometric figures, their properties, relationships, and the Pythagorean Theorem; deductive and inductive reasoning; perimeter, area, and surface area of two- dimensional and three-dimensional figures; coordinate and transformational geometry; and constructions.

Probability and Statistics, more specifically permutations and combinations; experimental and theoretical probability; data collection and graphical representations including box- and-whisker plots; data analysis and interpretation for predictions; measures of center, spread of data, variability, range, and normal distribution.

Accounting, as related to everyday mathematics.