Important tips to Teach Functional
Arithmetic for Children With Special Needs
At a Glance
·
Need of functional arithmetic
·
Readiness Skills for Functional
Arithmetic
·
Important Instructions to Make it
Effective Learning
The need of functional arithmetic
Every day we unknowingly use numbers in our
daily lives, we are not talking about it in which we need the complex number of
skills, but the numbers that are related to our daily routine such as at home,
in community and workplace.
For Example:
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How much bread be make?
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How many plates to put on the table?
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Which number's bus will reach its
location?
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How much fare it is?
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Counting bananas when buying etc.
Therefore functional arithmetic should be an
important part of the curriculum for children with special needs. So that
person/children with special needs can understand them and live independently.
In this part we will talk about some readiness skills and material.
Readiness Skills for
Functional Arithmetic
Assessing the readiness skill is very important
before teaching any new instruction. It makes us aware of weakness and strength
of learner. And it will be very helpful for us to make a great plan.
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Consists of sufficient language
according to the work it can be by showing signs, speaking, gestures.
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Can discriminate between two or more
things.
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Express himself, it can be by showing
signs, speaking, gestures.
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What level is achieved in an
arithmetic logical sequence? Because difficult to do sums of addition for a
person who is not aware of numbers.
·
The adequate concentration of the
learner for the task you are going to choose.
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If these requirements are not
complete then it is necessary to work first.
Important Instructions
to Make it Effective Learning
1.
To teach the learner, use concrete
materials.
2.
Try to use the meaningful material
which is very familiar and related to real life world of the learner.
3.
Try to create a real situation for
the task.
4.
To understand it more, different
exercises should be done with different material.
5.
It is important to give real-life
experience, to teach number skills.
6.
To meet the special needs of the
learner, there should be flexibility in the program. Like if reading is
difficult for the learner, remove reading from the arithmetic program.
7.
The material should be arranged so
that task analysis approach can be applied.
