Discuss common characteristics of students exhibiting mathematics learning disabilities and identify ways to work with each characteristic in the general education classroom.
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Answer should mention:
* Difficulty processing information and an underdeveloped sense of how to apply strategies
* Difficulty identifying the important information in math problems, especially in word problems, with a tendency to focus on irrelevant details
* Low motivation to succeed at mathematics with a passive attitude and a tendency to attribute successes and failures to external, uncontrollable factors
* Problem maintaining attention adequately to solve math problems * Poor reasoning and problem-solving skills
* Difficulty with self-monitoring and self-regulation during problem solving and arriving at answers impulsively
* Deficits in the areas of basic math facts and computational skills
* Memory and vocabulary difficulties
* Weak visual/spatial representational skills.
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