Math Literacy Strategies

Below are strategies posts related to Math Literacy.



pop dots for math array

10 by 10 Array Board for Students with Visual Impairments

Activity using 10 by 10 array boards to assist in teaching multiplication and math skills to students who are blind or visually impaired.
protractors and other measuring devices

Top Access Tips: Measuring Angles (sighted methods of access)

Tips on how to modify measuring angles for students who are visually impaired
boxes with handles and two letters on each

Initial Letter Sounds, Braille Contractions, and Numbers Drawers

This hands-on activity provides practice matching braille letters, contractions, and numbers to real objects
shape book cover with braille

The Shape Book

Hands-on tactile book to teach students who are blind or visually impaired about shapes
pattern shapes

Recognizing and Extending Patterns with Shapes

This activity is designed to help students who are blind or visually impaired to recognize patterns and extend them.
Collage of O & M literact activity

O&M Literacy: "Pairs" Game

This Orientation and Mobility activity is designed help students to refine their cognitive maps of their schools and to develop their estimations of time lapsed.
Literary braille numbers

Literary Numbers Activity

This hands-on activity is designed to help students practice reading literary braille numerals and counting the corresponding number of items.
Stuffed kitty with tea party and braille labels

Hello Kitty's Tea Party!

Use the popular "Hello Kitty" theme to teach beginning reading and number concepts!
Colorful buckets

Literacy and Numeracy Ideas with Buckets!

Activity for beginning literacy and numeracy, using buckets to count, identify letters and sounds.
Tom makes one pizza

Tom Makes One Pizza

This activity helps to teach one to one correspondence or the concept of one to children who are blind or visually impaired.
Jigsaw puzzle near completion, shows placement of tactile stickers on the frame underneath each piece.  Transparent tactile symbols on jigsaw picture are faintly visible.

Adapting Jigsaw Puzzles for Younger Students

Adapting puzzles for children who are blind or visually impaired
Child counts objects

Adapted Counting Work

This counting activity uses a switch to reinforce the concept of 1:1 correspondence for children who are blind or visually impaired with additional disabilities.
Tactile number line

Tactile Number Line

Create a tactile number line to help blind kids and students with multiple disabilities to understand the sequence and value of numbers.
Egg carton math

Learning Multiplication Facts in a Fun Way

A practical strategy for teaching multiplication and math skills to students who are blind or visually impaired using concrete manipulatives
number book

Number Book

This fun hands-on activity uses real objects to help children who are blind or deafblind to learn to count and develop number concepts.

Counting Book

This book uses real objects and tactile symbols, along with ASL signs to teach numbers and counting to young children who are blind or visually impaired, deafblind, or with multiple disabilities.
number cards arranged in order with objects under the numbers 1-3

Beginning Math Literacy

Beginning math activities for children who are blind or visually impaired; strategies for teaching numbers, counting, and making sets
Addition problem using tactile counting aids

Counting in Tactile Journals

Create tactile books or journals to work on counting and other early learning concepts with young children who are blind or visually impaired.
lands beyond collage

Lands Beyond

This game is an adaptation of Candyland, based on The Phantom Tollbooth, for students who are blind or visually impaired.
photo of the divided wheel and spinner arrow, with close-ups of print/braille

Wheel of Fortune Game

This game gives students practice reading braille words. It could easily be adapted to an inclusive setting.

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