After studying this chapter, you will be able to answer the following questions:

• What are the characteristics of students with mathematics difficulties and attributes of effective instruction?
• What is early number development and how is it taught?
• What are number combinations and how are they taught?
• What is place value and how is it taught?
• What is whole-number computation and how is it taught?
• What are rational numbers and how are they taught?
• What is algebra and how is it taught?
• What is problem solving and how is it taught?