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Description Calculator Assisted Mathematics for Everyday Living (CAMEL) is an individualized two-year program for those students who have had little or no success in mathematics. These students usually have computational deficiencies that preclude their mastering many of the "living skills" concepts that are part of everyday life for most people. CAMEL is based on the premise that these students can and will learn these concepts if the amount of computations is reduced. Students in a CAMEL classroom use calculators to perform the computations necessary to learn and apply these concepts. Paper and pencil computations are not excluded by use of the calculator. The program includes eight computations modules that the students must work using paper and pencil if they cannot demonstrate mastery of the skill on a pretest. Paper and pencil computations should take less than 20% of the students' time. While CAMEL was developed for use in a regular classroom and is primarily used there, the individualized nature of CAMEL makes it appropriate for any group that is highly transient and not well motivated.

The CAMEL program can be implemented by any math teacher. Teacher-student ratio 1:30 or less. A one-day training session is desirable. Each student in the program should have access to a calculator. A set of CAMEL materials is required and consists of eight computational modules, 31 applications modules, and two applications review modules; teacher and manager manuals; complete set of pre- and posttests with answer key. A management system to help the teacher is also part of the program.

Contact

Shirley M. Menendez, Ph.D., CAMEL, 1105 East Fifth Street, Metropolis, IL 62960. (618) 524-2664, FAX (618)524-2004.

Developmental Funding: USOE ESEA Title IV-C.
JDRP No. 82-5 (2/17/82)

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[Success Understanding Mathematics (SUM)]

[Diagnostic Prescriptive Arithmetic (DPA)]