This study intends to identify how self-instruction training may have effects on learning disabled children's ability to solve mathematical word problem and the maintenance of their problem-solving ability respectively, so that it explores effective t...
This study intends to identify how self-instruction training may have effects on learning disabled children's ability to solve mathematical word problem and the maintenance of their problem-solving ability respectively, so that it explores effective teaching strategy and the corresponding effect of maintenance as well for the children to solve mathematical word problem.
This study targeted 3 male children at the 5th grade, who had certain mathematical learning disability in the curriculum of elementary school(general school). Their intelligence quotient(IQ) ranged within ±1 of standard deviation(IQ 85~115), and their calculation areas were positioned at 1.0~1.5 grades or more in retard of current grade with regard to basic learning function test.
The experiment was performed over total 9 weeks with intercession applied 3 days a week(at total 27 cycles). With regard to the contents of program applicable during this period, total 10 items were applied per cycle -addition/subtraction items(2 items respectively) and multi-plication/ division items(3 items respectively) -, which were randomly selected from addition/subtraction items(65 items respectively) and multiplication/division(100 items respectively) in mathematical word problems of mathematics at the 3rd grade. Each item scored 1 point to sum into 10 points as full mark. After experiment, learning ability maintenance test was performed at 3 times at the interval of a week.
The results of this study can be summarized as follows:
First, self-instruction training was effective in improving the ability of these children to solve mathematical word problem.
Secondly, self-instruction training had significant effects on keeping these children's ability to solve mathematical word problem.