A Study on the Effectiveness of the Manipulatives in Teaching of Students with Mathematics Learning Disability

학습부진아의 수학지도시 구체적 조작물의 효율성에 관한 연구 -Unit Cubes를 활용한 중학교 1학년 기수법 지도-

The purpose of the study was to investigate the effectiveness of the manipulatives in instruction of mathematics to those who have learning disabilities. Two middle school students who revealed very low achievements in the previous mathematics tests were involved in this study. Unit Cubes were used as the manipulatives, and the researchers utilized this manipulatives to teach the number bases. After a series of instructions utilizing the Unit Cubes, the subjects were interviewed with semi-structured form. In general, the effect of using the manipulatives were positive. Both subjects could understand much better with the Unit Cubes, and revealed affirmative results such as their positive attitudes toward mathematics.