Mathml

Math is a subject that most students in K-12 participate in every
school day. This includes students with learning disabilities as they
are equally accountable to meeting general math curriculum
requirements. Project SMART provided digital versions of math
textbooks modified to include MathML for use by eighth grade
students with various learning disabilities. A goal of Project
SMART was to determine whether these accessible digital
textbooks improved student test performance as compared to control groups using the same texts in print format with a traditional oral accommodation. The study also examined the extent to which using accessible math impacted student perceptions about math abilities.
Students and most teachers found the accessible digital textbooks
preferable to the print versions. This was generally reflected in
higher test scores as well as consistently positive responses from
qualitative measures obtained from ongoing student and teacher
surveys.