As with all AT, there is a continuum of low-tech to high-tech tools to assist with math assignments. Examples of low-tech AT include manipulatives, which I discussed in my prior posting, rubber stamps, number lines, laminated addition and multiplication tables and specialized rulers. Students who lack fine motor control can benefit from large calculators. Students with learning disabilities and visual impairments can also use talking calculators which read aloud each keystroke the student enters. "See and solve" calculators show entire math problems on a screen so students can see their work. Mid-tech devices such as "coin abacus" and "coin-u-lator" contain keys shaped like coins for assisting with money counting.
Dell, A., Newton, D., & Petroff, J. (2012). Assistive technology in the classroom. Boston:
MA: Pearson.
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