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Teaching Techniques for 5th to 9th Grade Students with Learning
Disabilities in Algebra and Geometry

Concrete-Representational-Abstraction Strategy

F. D. Rivera, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Mathematics
San Jose State University

~ Module 15, Session 3~
Quick Write

Identify possible manipulatives or concrete devices that can be used to teach the following topics in algebra and geometry:
1. Multiplying binomials
2. Factoring perfect square trinomials
3. Factoring trinomial squares by trial and error
4. Finding Least Common Multiples of numbers and expressions
5. Adding and subtracting polynomial expressions
6. Learning reflections
7. Learning rotations
8. Areas of triangles
9. Areas of quadrilaterals (squares, rectangles, parallelograms, trapezoids)
10. Area of a circle

 

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