A review of the article "Why students with special needs have difficulty learning mathematics and what teachers can do to help." Covers congnition and strategies

Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, Feb 2003 "Why students with special needs have difficulty learning mathematics and what teachers can do to help" pg. 308 For the past two decades, US public schools have been blamed for students' poor performance in mathematics. As a response to our nation's low ranking in recent international comparisons, there has been an increase in number and difficulty of mathematics course requirements for graduation, as well as assessments given to high …

…do the same things that their peers can and we end up encouraging an outcast feeling. All students need to learn a variety of problem solving skills because we all have different learning styles, why then must we influence children with learning disabilities to think that they have an excuse to just give up? They do not; they simply have to discover a new skill to break past that block in the road to success.