Do you have any information on color blindness and how it effects a child's spacial sense?
I'm using Investigations for the first time and the children have been building staircases using a set of connectiong cubes labeled 1-12 with partners. After building all the steps they were asked to put them in order. (This was done over time). All went well with counting the cubes and putting them in order by looking at the set of cubes labeled 1-12 but when asked what was added on to each number to get the the next and to transpose what they had built on to graph paper, one of my students could not tell or show me what he had done. He really couldn't see the staircase. I had him feel it and he acknowledged it was different but.....
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try using green and purple/blue cubes. Color blind students have trouble differentiating between colors, but I have read that green and purple look very different.
I have asked some folks in the university setting and LD field and will share what I hear.
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