Empowering Students with Specific Learning Disabilities: Jim’s Concept of Unit Fraction
Cognitive differences have historically led to deficit assumptions concerning the mathematical experiences that children with learning disabilities (LD) can access. We argue that the problem can be located not within children but instead as a mismatch between features of instruction and children’s unique learning abilities. In this paper, we investigate how one elementary school child, Jim, with specific visual motor integration differences constructed a unit fraction concept.
This paper investigates how one elementary school child with specific visual motor integration differences constructed a unit fraction concept.