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Educati<strong>on</strong> <strong>and</strong> Training in <strong>Autism</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>Developmental</strong> <strong>Disabilities</strong>, 2012, <str<strong>on</strong>g>47</str<strong>on</strong>g>(3), 389–400<br />

© <str<strong>on</strong>g>Divisi<strong>on</strong></str<strong>on</strong>g> <strong>on</strong> <strong>Autism</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>Developmental</strong> <strong>Disabilities</strong><br />

Review of Academic Mathematics Instructi<strong>on</strong> for Students<br />

with Mild Intellectual Disability<br />

Casey Hord<br />

University of Cincinnati<br />

Emily C. Bouck<br />

Purdue University<br />

Abstract: Mathematics educati<strong>on</strong>–like all educati<strong>on</strong>–faced changes in recent years including increasing<br />

expectati<strong>on</strong>s, <strong>and</strong> these expectati<strong>on</strong>s have impacted all students, including students with mild intellectual<br />

disability. To explore the impact of the changes <strong>on</strong> mathematics educati<strong>on</strong> <strong>on</strong> students with mild intellectual<br />

disability, the authors reviewed the literature from 1999–2010 <strong>on</strong> academic mathematics interventi<strong>on</strong>s for<br />

students with mild intellectual disability. Of the seven articles found, the majority focused <strong>on</strong> interventi<strong>on</strong>s<br />

designed to improve knowledge of mathematical facts <strong>and</strong> computati<strong>on</strong>al procedures. One study included an<br />

interventi<strong>on</strong> involving metacogniti<strong>on</strong> <strong>and</strong> diagramming of mathematical relati<strong>on</strong>ships to help students solve<br />

word problems. Results suggest a diss<strong>on</strong>ance between the mathematics focus of mathematics professi<strong>on</strong>al<br />

organizati<strong>on</strong>s <strong>and</strong> federal <strong>and</strong> state policies regarding higher order mathematics <strong>and</strong> perhaps current practice<br />

for students with mild intellectual disability, as reflected in the research literature.<br />

Mathematics educati<strong>on</strong> is a core c<strong>on</strong>tent area<br />

with direct benefits for advanced educati<strong>on</strong><br />

<strong>and</strong> employment for all students (Algozzine,<br />

O’Shea, Crews, & Stoddard, 1987; Maccini,<br />

McNaught<strong>on</strong>, & Ruhl, 1999; Nati<strong>on</strong>al Council<br />

of Teachers of Mathematics [NCTM], 2000;<br />

No Child Left Behind [NCLB], 2002; Xin,<br />

Jitendra, & Deatline-Buchman, 2005). Although<br />

mathematics educati<strong>on</strong> has always<br />

been important, its stake in educati<strong>on</strong> has<br />

risen over the past few decades. Recent federal<br />

educati<strong>on</strong> laws mixed with rising expectati<strong>on</strong>s<br />

of nati<strong>on</strong>al professi<strong>on</strong>al organizati<strong>on</strong>s <strong>and</strong><br />

changes in educati<strong>on</strong>al policy altered what is<br />

expected of all students, including students<br />

with disabilities (NCTM; NCLB; Teuscher,<br />

Dingman, Nevels, & Reys, 2008; Woodward,<br />

2004).<br />

The latest reauthorizati<strong>on</strong> of the Elementary<br />

<strong>and</strong> Sec<strong>on</strong>dary Educati<strong>on</strong> Act (ESEA)–<br />

called No Child Left Behind (NCLB, 2002)–<br />

required all students to participate in each<br />

state’s accountability system, meaning students<br />

were to be tested annually in grades 3–8<br />

<strong>and</strong> <strong>on</strong>ce again in high school in reading,<br />

Corresp<strong>on</strong>dence c<strong>on</strong>cerning this article should<br />

be addressed to Casey Hord, PO Box 210002,<br />

Teachers/Dyer Hall, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati,<br />

OH 45221. Email: casey.hord@uc.edu<br />

mathematics, <strong>and</strong> science. Further, schools<br />

were to show Adequately Yearly Progress<br />

(AYP) to account for all students’ improvement<br />

as well as that of particular subgroups,<br />

such as students with disabilities, <strong>on</strong> their<br />

state’s accountability system (i.e., typically the<br />

large-scale general assessment in the reading,<br />

mathematics, <strong>and</strong> science) (Yell & Drasgow,<br />

2005). Not <strong>on</strong>ly were students with disabilities<br />

included in the general educati<strong>on</strong> law but also<br />

the latest reauthorizati<strong>on</strong> of Individuals with<br />

<strong>Disabilities</strong> Educati<strong>on</strong> Act (IDEA, 2004)<br />

aligned itself with NCLB regarding students<br />

with disabilities participating in the accountability<br />

system as well promoting access to the<br />

general educati<strong>on</strong> curriculum (Turnbull,<br />

Huerta, & Stowe, 2006).<br />

Also c<strong>on</strong>tributing to rising expectati<strong>on</strong>s for<br />

students with disabilities in mathematics educati<strong>on</strong><br />

were changes in high school graduati<strong>on</strong><br />

requirements, including exit exams<br />

(Ysseldyke et al., 2004) <strong>and</strong> m<strong>and</strong>ated upper<br />

level mathematics classes (Teuscher et al.,<br />

2008), as well as increasingly rigorous c<strong>on</strong>tent<br />

area st<strong>and</strong>ards proposed by professi<strong>on</strong>al organizati<strong>on</strong>s<br />

(e.g., NCTM, 2000) <strong>and</strong> the recent<br />

Comm<strong>on</strong> Core St<strong>and</strong>ards (Council of Chief<br />

State School Officers <strong>and</strong> Nati<strong>on</strong>al Governors<br />

Associati<strong>on</strong>, 2010). Exit exams, affecting 28<br />

states as of 2010, require a student to pass a<br />

Mathematics <strong>and</strong> Students with MID / 389

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