Teaching to Standards: MATH

Provides students with disabilities access to a standards-based math program

Teaching to Standards: MATH is a systematic, year-long math curriculum for middle and high school students with moderate-to-severe developmental disabilities, including autism.

Shown effective with students with significant developmental disabilities
Accommodates students who communicate nonverbally
Appropriate for ages 12–21
Full-year curriculum
Scripted lessons
5 levels of teacher support
Aligns to NCTM standards
Covers Geometry, Algebra, Data Analysis, and Measurement

Details

Two years of ongoing research at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte have shown the program to be highly effective in teaching math skills aligned to NCTM standards. Each student has his/her own MathWork book. Daily lessons begin with a real-world story illustrated with picture cues, and are taught with fading support levels. Stories are read to the students so no minimum reading level is required. A graphic organizer presents a problem for every story. Students write or place manipulatives to work out the solution.

Teaching to Standards: MATH is a full-year program for children ages 12 to 21 with:

Autism
Severe Cognitive disabilities
Moderate cognitive disabilities
Multiple disabilities
Mild disabilities who are English learners

WHAT YOU GET:

Introductory Kit -

MathWork student book
11 Graphic Posters
Counting manipulatives
Implementation Guide
Reproducible image library
PDF files of student materials
Getting Started staff training DVD

Classroom Kit -

8 MathWork Student Books
2 sets of posters
All other materials listed in the Introductory Kit

Extra MathWork Student Books are available separately in any quantity.

Getting Started DVD

A comprehensive DVD covering the essentials of TSM is provided with each purchase.

Reproducible Resources

PDF Files are included for all reproducible pages. Purchasing the TSM curriculum gives you license to print from PDFs or photocopy the materials.

REPRODUCTION —There's no need to worry about damaged pages or the right to create extra pages. Simply print out any reproducible page as a replacement or as extra copy.

MODIFICATION — Original TSM art is provided in JPEG format for creating teacher-made materials to supplement and adapt the TSM curriculum. Import the art into BoardMaker, Microsoft Word or PowerPoint, and create bulletin board decorations, add them to letters for families, etc.

By Katherine Trela, PhD, Bree Jimenez, MEd, and Diane Browder, PhD. MathWork student book is printed in color, spiralbound, 149 pages; Implentation Guide, spiralbound, color, 238 pages, 2008.

Alignments to State Standards are available for California, Florida, Missouri, Georgia, Texas and South Carolina.