Math AT for Students with Visual-Spatial or Motor Control Difficulties

In my last post I shared some applications that help students with fact fluency and automaticity. In this post I am going to share a few math applications for students with visual-spatial or motor control difficulties. Math requires us to use our hands to write numbers, align digits and create visual representations. For some students this poses a great challenge. This challenge can be eliminated by using applications such as MathPad or Virtual Pencil to assist students. 

MathPad is a talking worksheet program that enables students to perform arithmetic computations with whole numbers on the computer just as we could do with paper and pencil. This program helps students to align numbers in the correct place value, shows only one problem at a time, and all steps are shown. Virtual Pencil another program similar to MathPad. It is for students who are unable to use a pencil effectively. Virtual Pencil makes addition, subtraction, multiplication and division accessible for students with writing difficulties.

Reference:

Dell, A. G., Newton, D. A., & Petroff, J. G. (2012). Assistive technology in the classroom (2nd ed.)Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education, Inc.