Fractions Practice

Understanding and mastering fractions is a mathematical problem area for so many students, but it is more so for students with disabilities. Developing the skills necessary to succeed at fractions requires a lot of practice. Children with learning disabilities for example need much more individual help and a teacher with a lot of patience. One area that is difficult to deal with from the teacher perspective is the area of ADHD, these children can often disrupt the class, they are fidgety and unable to sit still. Even when told to settle down and be quite they are often unable to comply with the teacher's wishes. While other children are settled down practicing their fractions or taking a test, children with ADHD are often time making noise flipping pages, playing with pencils, or dropping their books. It seems that any activity is done rather than settling down and practicing their fractions. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is said to affect between 3 and 10 percent of children. This condition is one of the conditions falling under the categories of learning disabilities. ADHD is the most common mental disability affecting American children and chances are each teacher will have at least one student with ADHD in his or her math class. Sometimes these students are sent out of the room to practice on their fractions or other work, but that strategy has not proven that successful especially with children who are incapable of working on their own or need help understanding and solving the problems. The question has always been how does a teacher get the student to sit down long enough to actually learn the fractions and then complete them on a practice sheet? The solution may be easier than was previously thought. Research has shown evidence that ADHD kids can sit still for hours and concentrate on things that they love to do. Since children generally appreciate games. Online math games involving fractions may be a way to get these children to learn their math and practice without even realizing that they are doing so. They can go after the bad guys solving math problems, or create wonderful pictures and graphs. Though some would argue that these children are already over stimulated they have a chance to learn in an environment, which they love.