This document discusses various assistive technologies that can help students with math skills like automaticity, fluency, and conceptual understanding. It describes features of educational apps, such as simplified screens and instructions, consistent menus, graphics and audio support, and explanatory feedback. It also outlines tools like calculators, manipulatives, graph paper, and software that provide visual and audio support for math skills and concepts.

1. MATH SONG
Assistive Technology to
Support Math
Assisting students to use all three – Automaticity, fluency, and
conceptual understanding –to become effective problem solvers

2. Desirable Features of
Educational Applications
 Simplified screens and instructions
 Consistent placement of menus and control features
 Graphics along with text to support non-readers and early
readers
 Audio output
 Accessibility by a variety of methods
 Ability to set pace and level of difficulty
 Appropriate and unambiguous feedback
 Easy error correction

3.  Simply displaying or speaking the message
“WRONG” delivers feedback that may be perceived
as harsh. It may diminish students’ interest and
motivation over time.
 Explanatory Feedback

4. Definitions
 Automaticity:
 the fast accurate, and effortless processing of content
information”
 Computational Fluency:
 being able to efficiently and accurately carry out
procedures to solve computation problems
 relies on basic number facts

5.  Educational applications are particularly promising for
helping these students master needed skills because they
can be customized to meet individual needs, provide
sufficient repetition, and systematically present
materials.
 Achieving fluency and automaticity with important;
visual-spatial organization (e.g., aligning digits for
computation); understanding math concepts such as
number sense, time, measurement, and money; and
solving word problems are all difficult for students with
math disabilities to master.

6. Low and Mid Tech
 Low and Mid Teach tools such as;
 Addition and multiplication charts
 Calculators
 Manipulatives
 Raised # Rulers
 Stamps
 Flash Cards
 See and solve
Visual calculator

7. Graph Paper
 Click here to view website:
 Ability to choose type, size and measuring units
 Create your own graph paper

8. Onion Mountain
Technology
 Fraction rubber stamps
 Manipulative number line
 Laminated addition and multiplication tables
 Special ruler with transparent overlays
 Check out the website: Click Here

9. FASTT Math
 Watch Fastt Math Demo
 Fluency and Automaticity through Systematic
Teaching with Technology
 Math intervention program that helps students
acquire Math Fact Fluency

10. Visual Spatial or Motor
Control Difficulties
 Students with disabilities may experience difficulty
with writing numbers, aligning digits in
computation problems, and creating visual
representations (e.g. shapes or angles) for a number
of reasons
 Students may have difficulty copying math
problems from books, whiteboards, or blackborads
 Students unable to read their own work or place
digits in wrong place value

11. Expectations
 Students may be expected to solve problems with
numbers of:
- Fractions
- Decimals
- Percent’s,
- Draw and label lines
- Angles
- Two and three dimension figures

12. Electronic Worksheets
 Math Paper
 Digital Paper
 Math Pad
 Is a talking math worksheet program that enables
students to perform arithmetic computations with whole
numbers on the computer in much the same way they
would using pencil and paper
 Worksheets are typically solved on the screen for
students with skill levels from grades K-2
 Mac/Win
 Cost $79.95

13. - Digits are properly aligned - Feature allows to show direct re-grouping
- Displays one question at a time - Immediate feedback
- Customizable speech output - Teacher generated problems

14. Math Pad Plus
 Computations with
fractions and decimals
 Option of viewing pie
charts, tables, decimal
grids, fraction bars
 Manipulate problems
directly on the screen

15. Talking Calculators
 Talking Calculators Demo
 Speak N Talk Calculator Demo
 Scientific Calculator Demo
 See and Solve Calculator

16. Virtual Pencil Arithmetic
(Henter Math)
 Check out the VP
 Students who are pencil impaired (blind, motor
impairments or learning disabilities that interfere with
writing)
 Addition, subtraction, multiplication, division with
whole numbers, fractions, and decimal scores
 Speech feedback
 Tutor Mode
 Test Mode

17. Number Navigation
 Simple math processor
 Enter and solve basic math problems
 Customize the font, colour, font size
 Cost: FREE
 Number Navigation Picture

18.  Microsoft Equation Editor
 Enables students who have difficulty with handwriting but
have good mouse control to create simple or advanced
equations
 Math Type (Design Science)
 Symbols to create a wider variety
of equations and the ability to
enhance equations using color coding
 Scientific Notebook
 High end application
 Designed for solving equations

19. Math Input Panel
 Allows math equations to be handwritten into a
program and then converted to a text-based math
equation
 Equation becomes recognized as Math ML or
Mathematical Markup Language
 Maintains accuracy for both visual presentation and
its meaning

20. EmPower Program
Fx Draw, FX Equation, Fx Graph,
Fx Stat
 Construct geometric figures, write equations, create
graphs and produced statistically correct images
 Assist with writing equations, and create math
graphics with standard tools
 Cost: Free!!

21. National Library of Virtual
Manipulatives
 Navigate through variety of categories such as;
 Number and Operations, Algebra, Geometry,
Measurement or Data Analysis and Probability
 Grade level
Walkthrough the site: Click Here

22. Glencoe Virtual
Manipulative
 Manipulative Website
 Search by Grade level, Manipulative and
Background tool
 Click Here for Walkthrough

23. Gismo’s Virtual
Manipulatives
 450 on-line simulations for grades 3-12 for math
 You may use this as a 30-day trial or you can view
each activity for 5 minutes per 24 hr. period or you
can pay for the full use.
 Browse by grade level, topic, textbook or standards
 Click here to see:

24.  Illuminations
 Students who need extended practice, visual
representations of concepts and/or interactive
activities can benefit
 Site Walk Through: Click here
 Internet 4 Classrooms
 Build math skills of students in K-8
 Material to reinforce instruction, or specific subject
mater
 Cost: Free

25. Math Playground
 Large selection of resources to support learning
concepts, skills, word problems
 Online math activities, games, word problems, logic
puzzles
 Cost: Free!
 Check it out: Click here

26.  Conceptua Math
 Focuses on fractions, offers a variety of tools for
teachers to enhance instruction
 Provides visual models, spoken text
 Formative assessments, ability to monitor student
learning
 Watch the fraction overview: Click Here
 Destination Math
 Watch example: Click Here

27. Talking Balance
 The Talking Balance tells the student how much
mass is in the cup, in a safe and audible formal.
 Watch it!

28. Braille
 Math Textbooks
 Math Graphs and Tables

29. Math Overlays for
Specialized Keypads
• well-spaced keys in high contrast colors to help students locate
letters, numbers, words, and directional arrows.

30. Visual Dictionary of Math
Terms
Check out the link: Click Here

31. Clicker5
 Allows users to
create the
activities
 Assist in
learning and
counting
 Ability to
accompany text
and auditory
feedback