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Teaching Reading Skills in the Mathematics Classroom

Monograph No. 6: Reading In Mathematics

December 1980

Publication of the Mathematics Council of The Alberta Teachers’ Association

78 – 82

Teaching Reading Skills in the Mathematics Classroom

John J. Koster

There are two purposes to this article. The first is to provide a brief but generalized report on the problems of teaching reading in the mathematics class. The second is to provide a set of specific techniques from which the mathematics teacher may choose, to potentially improve the reading skills of students.