Most math software designed for all students makes rather large jumps in difficulty from one level to the next. This is particularly true of retail math software that purports to cover the entire K-8 math curriculum. Students with LD will often test out of Level 1 but then fail miserably on level 2 because the problems have gotten too difficult too fast.
Special education publishers such as Edmark are more aware of this difficulty and incorporate smaller difficulty increments between levels.
The other solution is to choose software that allows problem selection or construction to design an intermediate level that fits a particular student.
Math software should provide clues to the correct answer when a student makes an error. Software might indicate the range within which the answer should lie or show a diagram to indicate the underlying concept that could help the student solve the problem on their own. Software that simply indicates a student is wrong is less helpful. Fraction Fireworks Edmark incorporates an interesting and useful feedback technique.
The fireworks celebration after a correct answer illustrates the fraction chosen. A sure formula for creating student frustration is to require students to repeatedly guess on a problem they don't know.
It's also a sure formula for encouraging random guessing and other non thinking behavior. The best software will limit the number of attempts, give clues as to the correct answer, provide the correct answer, and then reintroduce that same item at a later time.
Test this feature on a software program by making deliberate errors. We know that informative performance feedback can help students understand their errors and help them set realistic but challenging goals. Software should keep records for each student. Young children might be told how many items out of the total number were correct. Older students can be given percentages correct. Information should be made available on the types of problems or the exact problems that caused difficulties.
Most software will include record keeping capabilities but preview software to be sure. The ability to accurately represent word problems can increase problem solving performance.
Software that incorporates built-in instructional aids such as counters, number lines, base-ten blocks, hundreds charts, or fraction strips can give the student tools to represent a given problem and then go on to solve it. These virtual manipulatives are incorporated in such programs as Equivalent Fractions by Sunburst. A colleague and I have done some preliminary work with students using concrete manipulatives with software when built-in instructional aids were not available.
Students found the aids very helpful as they solved fraction comparison problems. In real life there is usually more than one way to solve a problem. Money, time, and problem- solving software is more effective if it allows multiple roads to problem solution.
Making Change by Attainment Company, Inc. Instructional software is a tool in effective math instruction and learning. With color, graphics, animation, sound and interactivity, it can capture and hold the attention of students so that they persist in mathematics tasks. Software can use these same features to present mathematics in imaginative and dynamic ways.
When modifiable, it can support learning at the child's pace and on the child's level. It is important, however, to combine direct teacher instruction with technology- assisted instruction. In most instances, concept development with concrete materials and clear procedural instruction should precede software use.
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