About this Course

This two-day course is a structured, multisensory, and manipulative- based program that imparts practical ideas for implementing instruction to educators and parents who wish to work with underachieving students in Math. It is a hands-on, interactive, instructional approach that focuses on teaching the basic operations of mathematics – addition, subtraction, multiplication, division and fractions - in a different way. 

Using a developmental process that provides learning experiences which move from the concrete to representational to abstract, participants will acquire the skills needed to teach students struggling to develop their numeracy skills. The overriding principle of OG Math is “imagination, not rote memorization” which supports greater conceptual and visual understanding of mathematics.

The OG Math Course is Designed to help participants:

• understand what makes mathematics so difficult for dyslexic students.
  
• recognize the importance of multisensory teaching and learning.
  
• use manipulatives and drawings to enhance the student’s ability to visualize math concepts.
  
• learn to apply the basic themes of the OG Approach to mathematics.
  
• appreciate the importance of making Math fun and successful for both the teacher and student.
  
• develop comprehensive OG Math lesson plans for students.
  
• teach basic mathematics skills to mastery in a cumulative, sequential methodology
  

Approach: 

• Encourages students to consciously "think" through processes which might be quite automatic for most children.
  
• Allows the student to experience touching, moving and building math concepts with concrete materials while seeing, explaining and hearing how math problems can be solved.
  
• Teaches patterns of thought, i.e. the process needed to perform math functions and problem solving correctly, not just memorizing facts.
  
• Develops in a structural and sequential way in order to fill any gaps in the child's knowledge of math functions, vocabulary and problem solving. Eventually, students develop adequate math skills to become independent learners.
  
• Is a success oriented program in which the students work at levels appropriate to their abilities

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