The instructıon methods in teachıng mathematıcs to preschool students wıth specıal need

Abstract

Researches indicate that students with special needs having difficulty during the school life in mathematics skills. Therefore, early childhood is critical especially in gaining mathematics ability to the preschool students with special needs. İn these period, using the most appropriate teaching methods is so important for the students with special neeeds. The aim of this article is analyzing the articles and defining teaching methods or programs using in the researches to teach the mathematics to the preschool students with special needs. The articles were searched from the researches publishing in 1990-2015. The articles were selected as the criterions; participants must have been preschool student with special needs and teaching a mathematical skills. Accordin to these criterions 15 articles was selected using an instruction method or program to the preschool students with special needs. The selected articles was analyzed according to their research models, participants, dependence variables and wheather using reliability, social validity, generalization, and maintenence datas. Finally the findings which is obtained from the articles were discussed and reported. © The Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology.