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The purpose of the study was to help teachers understand the importance of using the Lattice Method in teaching multiplication with whole numbers and decimals to students with learning disabilities. The common errors made by learning disabled students in multiplication with whole numbers were analyzed. In the study, students with learning disabilities were able to do multiplication by the traditional way only with 15% accuracy, but they skillfully used the Lattice Method to multiply more than 2 digit numbers with more than 97% accuracy. Special education teachers who used the method to teach their students multiplication with whole numbers and decimals achieved great success in their classes. The method ensured that students with learning disabilities avoided misplacing place value and other errors in multiplying algorithms. Proper instructions greatly reduced the repetition of student errors in multiplication. It was also found that students were not able to multiply two or three digits in the traditional way, but they were able to multiply two or more digits with the Lattice Method in accuracy ranging from 90% to 100%. In addition, the method was used to teach decimal multiplication to students with learning disabilities very effectively. Overall, statistically significant differences between the two tests were found on the pre-test (significant at the 0.01 level) and the post-test (significant at the 0.05 level) on the basis of the formula of Chi-square. Students obtained much higher scores in the test with the Lattice Method than with the traditional way of multiplication. Above all, this method improved self-esteem and self-confidence in the students. (YDS)

1Boy Crusoe

By Allan Eric

Also published as" A Yankee Crusoe" . A 15 year old hard working and studious farm boy finds the lure of adventure on the seas as a merchant seaman more than he can resist. This is his story. " I was born in a little town in the State of Maine, near the close of the Civil War. My boyhood life did not differ materially from that of the average farmer's son in the remote country districts of New England--except, perhaps, that I read more and thought more. Hard work on the rugged soil, two terms each year in the little yellow country schoolhouse, a day's fishing now and then filled the early years of my life full to over-flowing. " What he gets is enough excitement and adventure to overflow his wildest dreams. How he experiences disaster and uses his wits and knowledge to overcome every problem makes for a great read. - Summary by Phil Chenevert