Content Area: Algebra

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Interpret the structure of expressions

X Use polynomial identities to solve problems

Create equations that describe numbers or relationships

Solve systems of equations

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How you can address the UDL principles for the selected information
above? Determine what tools can be used to support and enhance student
learning BY ALL students.

Mild Intellectual Disability

Low Tech ideas:
Whiteboards allow students to write their answers on the board in their own time
and display for the teacher to see if they are understanding concepts.
Large 1” Grid Chart Paper provides a structure for students to write out the
problems and keep work neat/organized so that it is easy to follow

High Tech ideas:

Text to Speech is meant to help students who have difficulties reading standard
print or students who have a difficult time focusing (dyslexia, ADHD).

Supportive APPS:
MyTalkTools Mobile -- this app allows for students with communication
difficulties to be able to say what they want by using phrases, sounds, and
pictures.

UDL Strategy (Wheel):

Use prompts and scaffolds to estimate effort, resources, and difficulty and models
or examples of the process and product of goal-setting.

Attention Difficulties
Low Tech ideas:
Koosh ball identifies a speaker in a group so that students with attention
difficulties know whether or not they are allowed to be talking at a particular time
Inquiry Box provides a “toy” for students to use to their learning advantage

High Tech ideas:

Headphones -- a lecture can be made into an audio recording and the student
can listen to the recording with headphones so there is less of an audial
distraction.
Live Scribe -- a pen that records lectures and can repeat back what was written
on the Live Scribe Notebook.

Supportive APPS:
Wunderlist -- useful for organizing to-do lists. This app also has a collaborative
feature to assign tasks to the different group members and help keep the
members on track.

UDL Strategy (Wheel):

Vary activities and sources of information so that they can be personalized and
contextualized to learners’ lives, culturally relevant and responsive, appropriate
for different racial, cultural, ethnic, and gender groups.

Physical Disabilities
Low Tech ideas:
Grip It! Attaches a pen/pencil holder to the desk (or wheelchair?) so that it stays
in one place and within reach for students
Evo pen fits in the palm of the hand so that it is easy for students to grip
Page holders hold pages so that they are facing student and easy to read

High Tech ideas:

Alternative Keyboard, e.g., IntelliKeys Keyboard -- allows for the student to
type their answers instead of writing in the case the student has trouble holding a
pen/pencil.

Supportive APPS:
TapToTalk App - this app turns your phone or tablet into an alternative
communication device in order to make communicating simple and fun. Just tap a
picture and the app speaks it out while leading on to another screen of images.

UDL Strategy (Wheel):

Provide alternatives for physically responding or indicating selections (e.g. to
marking with pen and pencil, to mouse control)

English as a Second Language

Low Tech ideas:
Sentence Strips & Objects/Symbols can be used to provide common (and
more difficult) sentences and objects in English and alternate language to provide
English learning supports in class.
Words in a bottle/Word rings both allow for the teacher to write English and
alternate language on an index card to provide English learning supports in class.
Reading Helper helps guide students as they read so that they do not lose their
place; can help when learning English so that students understand particular
sentences.
Veltex/soft fabric again, can be used to provide common (and more difficult)
sentences and objects in English and alternate language to provide English
learning supports in class. Students can potentially make their own sentences.

High Tech ideas:

Google Translate -- the teacher can type into Google Translate on the computer,
and the application with translate assignments to the student’s first language.
Kurzweil 3000 -- software designed to help students with literacy problems. The
software helps students with reading writing and study skills.

Supportive APPS:
iTranslate App - contains over 90 languages that can translate written speech as
well as dictation. This app can also slow down audio playback which helps
eliminate pronunciation errors and misunderstandings.

UDL Strategy (Wheel):

Pre-teach vocabulary and symbols, especially in ways that promote connection to
the learners’ experience and prior knowledge.

Sensory Impairment
Auditory Visual

Low Tech ideas: Low Tech ideas:

Any text-to-speak utensil can be
used in order for a student to read
what a teacher is saying in case they
are unable to hear them.
High Tech Ideas:
Online Virtual Manipulatives --
websites like Khan academy have
audio/visual videos for teaching
secondary math.
Supportive APPS:
Sign 4 Me App -- the app’s library of
signs contains over 11,500 words in
which the teacher and student can
communicate through sentences,
phrases and words. Everything that is
entered can be saved in the app’s
History.
UDL Strategy (Wheel):
Provide base-10 blocks, algebra
blocks (either concrete or virtual)
Light Pen enhances writing area so
students can see writing better
Raised line paper enhances lines on
paper so that students know where they
should be writing
Easy reading text guides helps
students as they read so that they do not
lose their place.
See It Right or other colored
transparencies are used to correct
specific visual perception problems and
can aid in reading and writing.
High Tech ideas:
Electronic text (etext) -- have the
lesson written in a text file to have it read
to the student.
Supportive APPS:
Big Calculator App - calculator takes
up the whole screen so that the buttons,
numbers, and overall display are big and
easier to view

UDL Strategy (Wheel):

Compose in multiple media such as text,
speech, drawing, illustration, comics,
storyboards, design, film, music, visual
art, sculpture, or video