Dawn Kidd Word Problem Analysis

Not being able to hear is something that many people across the globe have to go through on a daily basis. In the United States alone, “Over 5% of the world’s population – 360 million people – has disabling hearing loss (328 million adults and 32 million children) (WHO). While five percent does not seem like a whole lot, three hundred sixty million is a fairly large group of people that are hearing disabled. Regardless of whether or not that person can hear at all, or is hard of hearing, the fact of the matter is that their lives are much different than most of the world. Everything from playing sports, watching TV, going to school can affect someone who is deaf in a much greater way than those who can hear. Specifically related to mathematics …show more content…
In fact, there is a teacher named Dawn Kidd who works at the Texas School for the Deaf in Austin, Texas who has been teaching for quite some time now and seems to know how to program her classes so that her student get the most from her class. One thing that Mrs. Kidd has done to improve her classroom efficiency is create a “Word Problem Analysis Template” (Kidd). Something that Mrs. Kidd understands is that word problems are hard for everyone at one point or another, and especially for those children who are deaf. This template Kidd uses has essentially 9 different parts. It starts off with the problem (who, what, when, where) then asks for the question and any important numbers. From there it asks to draw a pic of the situation and compute the data given. Then a piece that seems to demonstrate how the children might learn better is the part that asks for what they did, and write out the steps that were done in order. Finishing the word problem template, it ends with did they use a formula chart, was their answer reasonable, and to end the page is the spot for the final answer. This rigorous template used to solve word problems is a tool that can most definitely benefit deaf children by practicing more and