A Toolbox for Teaching Price Comparison to Students with Disabilities

Autor/inn/en	Weng, Pei-Lin; Bouck, Emily C.
Titel	A Toolbox for Teaching Price Comparison to Students with Disabilities
Quelle	In: TEACHING Exceptional Children, 49 (2017) 5, S.347-354 (8 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0040-0599
DOI	10.1177/0040059916671136
Schlagwörter	Mathematics Instruction; Mathematics Skills; Mathematical Concepts; Special Education Teachers; Number Concepts; Teaching Methods; Comparative Analysis; Moderate Intellectual Disability; Severe Intellectual Disability; Secondary School Teachers; Numeracy; Numbers + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Mathematics lessons; Mathematikunterricht; Mathmatics achievement; Mathematics ability; Mathematische Kompetenz; Special education; Teacher; Teachers; Sonderpädagoge; Sonderpädagogik; Sonderschulwesen; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Number concept; Zahlbegriff; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Rechenkompetenz; Zahlenraum
Abstract	Price comparison is a functional mathematics skill involving purchasing, use of money, and budgeting, with the goal of selecting the best deal based on a person's financial resources (Browder, Spooner, & Trela, 2011). The operational definition of "price comparison" is to compare the magnitudes of the price numbers and then select the lower-priced item or an item that represents the best price + benefit combination (Sandknop, Schuster, Wolery, & Cross, 1992). Special education teachers find teaching this skill to their students a challenge because price comparison is more than just comparing the magnitudes (i.e., values) of price numbers. It involves many steps, such as: (1) locating grocery items; (2) recognizing numbers on price tags associated with the grocery items; (3) associating magnitudes with price numbers; (4) comparing values of numbers (i.e., number comparison); (5) understanding the relationship between magnitudes of numbers and semantic meanings such as more, less, bigger, smaller, cheaper price, and lower price; and (6) selecting the desired grocery item (e.g., the lower-price item; Sandknop et al., 1992; Weng & Bouck, 2014). The authors explore four types of strategies teachers can use to teach price comparison to their students. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01