My visual activity project was created to assist students, specifically students with a learning disability in math, with adding and subtracting positive and negative numbers. The number line is going vertical, because research has shown that students with disabilities interpret information that is displayed vertical. Most number lines are shown horizontal, so this is an accommodation used to assist a student who struggles with math. The changes I did from the feedback from the rough draft were abundant. The major change included color. I chose black to label positive numbers. I used blue to have the zero stand out. And lastly I used red to display negative numbers. When this topic is taught, I like to use the words to describe negative numbers, “In the red”.
My image uses the simple shape of lines to separate positive and negative numbers, as to show direction to positive and negative numbers (250). In order to help the student remember the information in their working memory, I chunked the positive numbers together with the color black and the negative numbers were chunked together with the color red (55).
My original image rough draft with comments is displayed in the post below.
