Teaching Mathematics to Children with Visual Impairments at Specialized Boarding Schools
Keywords:
children with visual impairments, methods, visual aids, mathematics, mathematical knowledge, typhlopedagogueAbstract
The article discusses how to teach mathematics to children with visual impairments at school. When selecting methods of work and the experience of specialized boarding schools for visually impaired children, it is important to take into considerations of creating a safe and barrier-free environment that can contribute to the formation of mathematical knowledge of children with the help of various visual aids such as counting sticks, abacus, three-dimensional figures, arithmetic boxes, subject pictures and relief-graphic aids. With the help of these techniques, children can develop the ability for mental operations, clarify the idea of objective and spatial images in mathematics (size, shape, number of objects, spatial arrangement and drawing and measuring actions), and help form visual and tactile memory.
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