What are two major ways to prevent mathematics difficulties?

What will be an ideal response?


Answer should discuss giving kindergarteners basic math understanding and to screen kindergarteners/first graders for math challenges.

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Three of the following strategies are effective with students from low-income families. Which one is unlikely to be effective?

a. Communicate clear expectations for students' behavior. b. Find out what students do well and build on their strengths. c. Show students how academic tasks are relevant to their personal lives. d. Lower the standards by which you evaluate students' academic performance.

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In the human brain, a great deal of synaptic pruning occurs in early childhood. This pruning appears to be:

a. The unfortunate result of insufficiently stimulating home environments b. An adaptive process that allows children to deal more efficiently with their environment c. Due to an imbalance of important nutrients, and especially to low levels of the B vitamins in many children's diets d. Reflective of the fact that the forebrain is slowly taking over responsibility for functions that have previously been regulated by the hindbrain and midbrain

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There are instances when a school library media specialist or teacher deliberately and conscientiously selects books and other materials to include (or exclude) in a library collection or to incorporate into instruction

a. This practice demonstrates the professional's efforts to have a well-balanced library media center. b. This practice is censorship, either consciously or unconsciously done. c. This is an outdated practice—all book and curricular purchase should be a committee decision. d. This is a violation of students' rights, since student representation should have been on the committee and involved in the process.

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Adolescents who do not receive prenatal care __________.

A. are three times more likely than those who do receive prenatal care to give birth to a premature infant B. less likely than those who do receive prenatal care to give birth to a premature infant C. have a 50/50 chance of having lower overall medical costs compared to those who do receive prenatal care D. are as likely as those who do receive prenatal care to give birth to a premature infant

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