Fatikhova L.F. Kuisener sticks: math learning with preschool children with learning disabilities

Keywords: Kuisener sticks mental retardation learning math skills

Fatikhova L.F. Kuisener sticks: math learning with preschool children with learning disabilities // Preschool Education Today. 2012, Issue 6 - p. 56–61.

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2012, 6

Lidia F. Fatikhova
PhD in Pedagogy, Assistant Professor, department of Special Education and Psychology, Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Education “M. Akmullah Bashkir State Pedagogical University”, Ufa, Russia

Abstract

This paper presents a program of teaching mathematics for preschoolers with mental retardation with means of Kuisener sticks. Stages of correctional and pedagogical work, and the methods and techniques of teaching preschool math skills with numbers are described. Exercises during which children assimilate composition of number are introduced. Kuisener sticks are increasingly used in the work of preschool pedagogues for different educational and developmental objectives: building counting skills, the development of orientation in color, size, formation of constructive praxis, spatial representations, and others. Experience of the development of elementary mathematical concepts in preschool children with mental retardation with the help of Kuisener sticks is described.