She LIKES doing Math!

This is Mariah doing her 5th Grade Level Math the other day.....she enjoys doing Math today more than ever before!

Now that she is bringing home her 5th Grade Level "Go Math" textbook everyday in her backpack - I am able to now see the classwork she did in Math class with her general ed classmates without Down syndrome....classwork that was actually worked on while in Math class that day. Mariah is now coming home with Math classwork completed! Her classmates are more involved with being positive peer role models helping her do just what they are doing in small groups. This is progress in the right direction......finally!! The communication is better because her teacher emails me alot too, so there is back & forth communication all the time. It had been such a struggle to see what she was actually "doing in class" the same as her classmates. It's a new school year with newly updated IEP goals written in to help support her IEP goals that are now to be INFUSED & INCLUDED INTO HER GENERAL EDUCATION CURRICULUM CLASSWORK.

My daughter is EXCITED to do some of her Math Homework now! This is her 2nd year in the 5th Grade and it is proving to be one of her BEST ACADEMIC YEARS so far!

Mariah is a student with Down syndrome (13 years old) and her desire to do well in school is motivating to her this year, because she knows she needs to do well in Math if she wants to one day have a job as a Vet Tech and go to college.

Mariah loves school and all her teachers this year! Her mom is loving all the nice academic progress she sees Mariah doing so far this year!

This little video clip was taken at first without Mariah knowing I was taping her doing her homework, then I asked her if she liked Math...and she said, "yes" so cute. I asked her if Math was hard for her...she says, "No, it's easy!" Oh my I love this girl!!~

It's BASICALLY SIMPLE ~ or as Mariah will say.... "SEE, IT'S EASY!" If you had a whole Apple Pie sitting on the table in front of you, you wouldn't have to eat the entire pie to know that you LIKED Apple Pie and wanted to have more of it! You would know you LIKED it just by eating a slice of that Apple Pie! You would know you LIKED it and WANTED MORE even with just a BITE of the PIE...even a TINY BITE OF THE PIE! It doesn't take eating the WHOLE PIE to know you LIKE IT & WANT MORE OF IT! ~ Point being, Inclusion is that same way.....providing a SLICE or a TINY BITE OF THE PIE (lessons) is what should be practiced in ALL our Classrooms today. That is what ACCOMODATIONS are all about....it LEVELS THE PLAYING FIELD for ALL Students.

Mariah has Accomodations, she doesn't have to do pages and pages of Math that some of the other students may have to do....she just needs to do a PORTION....a small portion even. On some days depending the assignment she will do more or less depending on the new concept being taught.

Today....she LIKES Math!

My daughter is now being provided more of that Apple Pie (Grade Level Math) which is about her being provided a PORTION of the Pie (Math Lesson). Small bites of (Lesson) what she CAN DO! Let's give students what THEY NEED...in small portions and build from there.

Mariah ROCKS in doing her Math this year and is actually doing 5th Grade Level Basic ALGEBRA!!

I am soooo PROUD of her!!


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Created in Honor of Mr. Allagood, Mariah's 5th Grade Homeroom & Science teacher! www.downsyndromeinclusiveeducation.blogspot.com