The employment of verbal and visual Information for 3rd grade deaf students in arithmetic story problem solving

Straipsnyje aptariama lietuviško rašytinio teksto, uždavinio iliustracijų ir lietuvių gestų kalbos pritaikymo kurtiesiems mokiniams sprendžiant tekstinius uždavinius specifika. Nagrinėta mokinių tekstinių uždavinių sprendimo rezultatai ir pokalbių apie sprendimą medžiaga, surinkta vartojant gestų kalbą. Įvardytos verbalinės informacijos supratimo sunkumų neutralizavimo ir vizualios informacijos taikymo praplėtimo galimybėsThe scientific studies have shown that deaf students in comparison to their hearing peers find mathematical word tasks much more difficult to solve. Following this finding, in our article we are discussing how Lithuanian oral/written and Sign languages (LSL) supported by illustrations might assist deaf students solving mathematical word problems. The analytical part of this article is based on results from a small field survey – deaf students were asked to take math word problems followed by discussions with the same students (performed in LSL) about their (un)success. The following methods have been applied: instrumental case study, written survey, observation, and qualitative content analysis. Due to the specifics of schools for deaf children we have chosen a small sample group consisting of six deaf 3rd grade students.[...]Vytauto Didžiojo universitetasŠvietimo akademij