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<blockquote data-quote="trinityroyal" data-source="post: 269254" data-attributes="member: 3907"><p>I think Tiredmommy's suggestion has a good likelihood of success.</p><p>It sounds like, although your student knows the discrete value of each coin, he's having trouble understanding that 25 means 20 and 5, rather than a 2 and a 5.</p><p></p><p>Teaching him the fundamental concepts of ones, tens, hundreds, and thousands will likely help him. Using the columnar format TM suggested might help.</p><p></p><p>If you can find a way to make it visual and tactile for him, it might work even better.</p><p>For example:</p><p></p><p>Get a selection of beads in 2 different colours, say red and blue. Make each bead represent the value of one cent, regardless of the colour.</p><p></p><p>Have a dish of blue beads that represent the ones</p><p>Have a selection of red beads, strung together in groups of ten, to represent the tens.</p><p></p><p>To illustrate that a quarter equals 25 cents, give him 2 of the red bead strings, plus 5 of the individual blue beads. Then ask him to count how many beads there are in total. There are 25 beads in total, therefore the value of the quarter is 25, not 2 plus 5.</p><p></p><p>I've seen this sort of technique work very will with dyslexic and autistic children. It might be worth a shot.</p><p></p><p>Trinity</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="trinityroyal, post: 269254, member: 3907"] I think Tiredmommy's suggestion has a good likelihood of success. It sounds like, although your student knows the discrete value of each coin, he's having trouble understanding that 25 means 20 and 5, rather than a 2 and a 5. Teaching him the fundamental concepts of ones, tens, hundreds, and thousands will likely help him. Using the columnar format TM suggested might help. If you can find a way to make it visual and tactile for him, it might work even better. For example: Get a selection of beads in 2 different colours, say red and blue. Make each bead represent the value of one cent, regardless of the colour. Have a dish of blue beads that represent the ones Have a selection of red beads, strung together in groups of ten, to represent the tens. To illustrate that a quarter equals 25 cents, give him 2 of the red bead strings, plus 5 of the individual blue beads. Then ask him to count how many beads there are in total. There are 25 beads in total, therefore the value of the quarter is 25, not 2 plus 5. I've seen this sort of technique work very will with dyslexic and autistic children. It might be worth a shot. Trinity [/QUOTE]
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