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An alternating treatments design was used to analyze the effects of concrete and virtual manipulatives on the duration and number of correctly solved linear equations by three middle school students with cognitive disabilities. Participants physically manipulated algebra tiles to solve an equation during the concrete manipulative condition. During the virtual manipulative condition, participants used a Chromebook to manipulate the virtual algebra tiles presented on the BrainingCamp website. All participants exceeded their average baseline accuracy scores using both forms of manipulatives to solve one and two-step algebraic equations. Comparing the two treatment conditions, two of the three participants had higher average scores for accuracy using the concrete manipulatives than the virtual manipulatives. One of the three participants solved algebraic equations in a shorter duration of time with concrete manipulatives. The data suggest both concrete and virtual manipulatives can successfully support students with disabilities to solve algebraic equations.
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Accounts of Chemical Research presents short, concise and critical articles offering easy-to-read overviews of basic research and applications in all areas of chemistry and biochemistry. These short reviews focus on research from the author’s own laboratory and are designed to teach the reader about a research project. In addition, Accounts of Chemical Research publishes commentaries that give an informed opinion on a current research problem. Special Issues online are devoted to a single topic of unusual activity and significance.
Accounts of Chemical Research replaces the traditional article abstract with an article "Conspectus." These entries synopsize the research affording the reader a closer look at the content and significance of an article. Through this provision of a more detailed description of the article contents, the Conspectus enhances the article's discoverability by search engines and the exposure for the research.