CONTENT AREA: ​Geometry

OBJECTIVE: ​Experiment with Transformations in the Plane

How can you address the UDL principles for the selected information above?
Determine what tools can be used to support and enhance student learning
BY ALL students.

Mild Intellectual Disability

Low Tech ideas:
An inquiry box is a fun way to teach students about a specific idea and topics that
are connected. It helps students develop connections to different ideas and how
they are related while they think it is a craft. The cube is also a geometric shape
and other types of shapes can be utilized to learn other ideas.

High Tech ideas:

Some high tech ideas could include geometry games that keep attention and
provide some creativity to make connections between the student and the idea.
Desmos also has pre-programmed class activities for transforming shapes that take
the student step by step in exploring the topic with visual supports.

Supportive APPS:
Relationshapes allows for a fun interaction with geometric shapes and DoodleMath
makes a structured curriculum that uses a student’s preexisting knowledge to
scaffold them into higher level topics.

UDL Strategy (Wheel):

Options for Perception​ - Providing visual diagrams can help the student understand
the concept behind geometric transformations instead of relying on abstract
numerical coordinates.
Options for Sustaining Efforts and Persistence​ - Differentiating the degree of
difficulty for a geometric transformations task can help a student gradually work into
higher level thinking while still maintaining confidence in their ability.
 Attention Difficulties
Low Tech ideas:
Velcro enhanced books and an inquiry box would be interactive low tech tools to
help students stay attentive during a lesson. The books could teach students how a
plane works while rotating images with velcro. The inquiry box allows for questions
about the geometry lesson. A time timer (Generaction) can also help students see
how much time they have left for an activity, which can help to refocus them.

High Tech ideas:

A touch window and online virtual manipulatives would be beneficial for keeping the
attention of students while using high technology. This allows for interaction with the
technology while learning how to manipulate images to transform on the plane, by
the simple touch of a screen or moving manipulatives around.

Supportive APPS:
Math Ninja and Mindnode are apps that allow students to play games while learning
new skills, and also stay organized while doing so.

UDL Strategy (Wheel):

Options for Recruiting Interest​ - Having open communication with students about
setting specific, personal goals for themselves can help them stay engaged in a
lesson in addition to self-reflecting when they start to lose attention.

Physical Disabilities
Low Tech ideas:
Depending on the physical disability of the student, some large blocks can be used
by students with dexterity issues to feel and understand different geometric shapes.
In addition, having proper desk accommodations such as swing away desks and
larger desks provides students with space and comfort level to work with these
ideas.

High Tech ideas:

In the case of a student having a physical disability that prevents them from using
their hands, an accommodation could be a talk to type software and microphone to
allow a student to complete written assignments.
A Touch Window (Edmark) can allow students that may not have the fine motor
skills to operate a computer mouse to still participate in computer based activities
that involve transforming geometric shapes.

Supportive APPS:
Dragon anywhere allows for documents to be edited using voice commands instead
of the use of a traditional keyboard. Proloquo2Go can help those who are nonverbal
to communicate their thoughts.

UDL Strategy (Wheel): ​Options for Physical Action​ - Providing alternatives to

physically responding and interacting with materials (using a joystick instead of a
mouse, moving a material to an online/technological platform instead of
manipulative, or vise-versa depending on the specific disability, etc.) allows for
students to be able to experiment with geometric transformations in an accessible
way.

English as a Second Language

Low Tech ideas:
Easy reading text guides and word rings would allow a student to engage in reading
a geometry textbook in English without getting confused over several words at
once. The text guide makes reading simpler, and the word rings would help with
vocabulary in the geometry reading by using a physical flashcard.

High Tech ideas:

Text-to-Speech is a high tech idea that allows students to type and ensure that they
are pronouncing any word correctly, such as reflection, rotation, or transformation.
Another high tech support would be Simon Sound It, which allows the student to
relate words to different word families to create a better understanding of the
English language as it is used in math.

Supportive APPS:
Supportive apps include the google translate app as well as youtube, which would
allow students to search words and get the correct pronunciation. They could also
search lessons on youtube that would help them get used to an instructor saying
the words associated with geometry.
UDL Strategy (Wheel):
Options for Expressive Skills and Fluency​ - The use of sentence starters can help
students formulate their thoughts in English. Composing in multiple media can also
help convey the content without relying solely on English communication.

Sensory Impairment
Auditory Visual

Low Tech ideas: Low Tech ideas:

Physical manipulatives would allow for
the student to move the shape around a
coordinate plane and connect the
numerical coordinates with the
transformation.
Offering written versions of the
notes/content can help communicate
the idea behind transformations.
Raised line graphing paper helps
students to understand the concept of the
xy-coordinate plane and plot points.
High Tech ideas:
A talking tactile tablet (TTT) can be used
with computer programs to display raised
graphics and provide audio feedback.

High Tech Ideas: Supportive APPS:

Personal FM systems have the teacher AccessNote works with iOS to take notes.
wear a small microphone that transmits Evernote is another note taking app that
the sound to the student. stores voice notes and other media.

UDL Strategy (Wheel):

Supportive APPS:
Google live transcribe helps students to
transcribe notes and lectures.
Desmos allows sliders that students
can manipulate when dealing with
points on the coordinate plane.
Options for Perception​ - Varying the
speed, volume, and/or font of content
media can help students with visual
impairments receive content data.

UDL Strategy (Wheel):

Options for Language and Symbols ​-
Presenting key concepts in an
alternative form, likely in a more visual
medium, can help students with hearing
impairments connect to the content
better.