[NIFL-FOBASICS:1172] Why Not use the calculator for long division?

From: Michele Craig (shellcraig@ix.netcom.com) ((shellcraig@ix.netcom.com))
Date: Thu Nov 18 2004 - 19:02:23 EST


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Jan,

These students are trying to pass the GED examination and so need to learn 
to do division without a calculator. Although accomodations which would 
allow calculator use on the exam are available, the student needs a 
diagnosis of LD and all the testing that goes along with it done within the 
last five years. Even when students have been evaluated as children the GED 
requires a new current evaluation. The cost of this is prohibitively 
expensive for our students although I have been looking into ways to use 
graduate students from Sac State to do these for us or to get grant money 
to pay for them.

In the meantime, in order to get the GED, they need to learn to divide.

Michele



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