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

Select another that works for you!

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 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 is a pen that records lectures and can repeat back what was written on the Live Scribe
Notebook.

Supportive APPS:
Wunderlist is a useful app 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 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 is a 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:
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)
Low Tech ideas:
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) allows a lesson to be written
in a text file and 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