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Number Lines & Math Facts

20th October 2009

Number Lines & Math Facts

posted in Autistic Life, Homeschool, Zane |

He was getting bored and hating reviewing adding and subtracting with number lines, so we took it outside. The ability to change things up like this is one of the reasons I like homeschool.

I ended up writing a prompt for him to get him to quit responding to the equation with “Is it ___?” instead of just stating the answer. It did seem to help.

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