Inclusive Curricula: Mathematics and Special Educational Needs
Here is a series of links to websites featuring the teaching of Mathematics to students with special educational needs. A category of SEN and a short description of content accompany each link.
Literature on Special Educational Needs in Mathematics
Special Educational Needs
Olof Magne's exhaustive bibliography of SEN in Mathematics references published by Malmö School of Education.
Accessing the National Curriculum for mathematics
Special Educational Needs
Adobe Acrobat file designed for "headteachers, teachers of pupils with special educational needs in Key Stage 3, SENCOs and SEN advisers."
Special Educational Needs in Mathematics
Special Educational Needs
This University of Southampton bibliography is designed to provide PGCE student teachers of Mathematics with ideas for further reading.
Special Educational Needs
Equals: mathematics and special educational needs is a Mathematical Association magazine "for those working to ensure that all pupils benefit from mathematics." Equals contains updates on issues affecting practice, descriptions of teachers’ experiences, reviews of books, packs and equipment, practical ideas for the classroom, materials to photocopy. Some articles are available online.
Planning, teaching and assessing the curriculum for pupils with learning difficulties: Mathematics
Special Educational Needs
National Curriculum website: Introduction, Responding to pupils’ needs, opportunities and activities at key stage 1-4, performance descriptions.
Special Educational Needs
Mathematics target-setting for the individual educational plans of learners with special educational needs.
Specific Learning Difficulties in Mathematics: A Classroom Approach
Specific Learning Difficulties
Olwen El Naggar’s National Association for Special Educational Needs (NASEN) handbook dedicated to the provision of National Curriculum access to learners with SpLD.
Specific Learning Difficulties
Publishers of Maths for the dyslexic by Anne Henderson: "A guide for parents, teachers and SENCOs who help dyslexic students who struggle with mathematics."
Visual Impairment
The Mathematics theme issue of the Royal National Institute for the Blind newsletter.
Teaching Math to Visually Impaired Students
Visual Impairment
Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired advice on teaching strategies, tactile mathematical graphics and adaptive tools and technology for the mathematical education of VI students.
Visual Impairment
Statewide Vision Resource Centre links to resources for adapting the curriculum for blind and low Vision Students.
Severe Learning Difficulties
Longmoor School and Residential Unit provide education for pupils with severe learning difficulties, aged 2 to 11. The Word document can be downloaded from the Longmoor Curriculum Support Downloads Page.
© 2002 D. R. Wilson