Name of teaching material
Stairs of numbers self-made product
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| Target |
・Second grade of the elementary division ・Children who are interested in numbers. ・Children who can count up to, and down from, 10. ・ Children who are beginning to learn to count by pointing at objects and who can make a connection between the number and the actual objects if the number is up to 5. |
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| Disability category | mentally challenged autism |
| Teaching units / Applicable scenes | arithmetic, mathematics |
| Specific purposes |
・Children’s interest in numbers can be increased while they work with objects. ・Children will become able to connect numbers and quantities up to 10. |
| Considerations for disability characteristics |
・To enable the children to see that the number was increasing, plastic bottle caps were arranged like stairs (vertically). ・A gridded sheet (removable) was attached to the teaching material as a hint when lining up the exact number of caps as indicated on each step. |
| Expected effects and results |
・The children learned to use the teaching material and became able to line up the exact number of bottle caps as indicated on each step, as well as to count by pointing at the caps. ・They also began to be able to make the connection between numbers and quantities from 6 to 10. |
| How to use |
1. Show the stair-shaped board with numbers written on it. 2. Line up the exact number of plastic bottle caps on the stairs as indicated on each step. 3. The child and the teacher count the numbers by pointing at each cap. |
| Related teaching materials and information | |
| Useful for other students |
- Informant Special Needs Education School for Children with Autism,University of Tsukuba
- Keywords Numbers, quantity, working with objects, and matching
- Created 2016-11-02 14:23:58
- Updated 2023-12-08 17:33:09