Rich, thank you for the wonderful resources!  What a wealth of good, practical information!  There is a lot of material on those websites which I will be able to use in teaching and training.

Betsy S. Gauss
Lake Wales Literacy Council Tutor-Trainer
Certified Orton-Gillingham Tutor Trainer
140 E. Park Ave.
Lake Wales, FL 33853


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From: Richard Gacka 
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Gail
One of our staff brought a web site to my attention that seems to have a great deal of potential for use in teaching math using visualization of concepts and item manipulation. The material will still require an instructor, but it does provide opportunities for students to "see" concepts and that may make them easier to understand.  The site is free. Projected for classroom use, I'm sure some of the activities would lead to interesting discussions of math concepts. 


The web site is http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/vlibrary.html 


Below you will find a link to a handout from a presentation that was made at the PA Making Math Real conference. The theme of the handout is that many difficulties with mathematics are really cognitive difficulties in disguise. If you can identify where the thinking process breaks down, you can teach students the cognitive strategies that will help them to get around those problems in the future. It could easily be used as an observation checklist for diagnostic purposes. Best wishes.


Go to the following link and select the article "I don't get it....." 
http://web.mac.com/ldconsultants/Learning_Differences_Consultants/Articles_and_Readings/Articles_and_Readings.html



Rich Gacka Ed.D.
Director, PA ABLE LD project
http://web.mac.com/ldconsultants


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