Instructional/Environmental Modifications
	The procedures used to accommodate the range of abilities in the classroom, including students with disabilities, limited English proficiency, or bilingual students:

This experience was conducted in our computer lab. Students were allowed a partner to help during the learning process, but they were responsible for completing and submitting their own work. Students opened two applications simultaneously to do the work. At times, a student and the student’s partner used both computers to gain insights from representations in graph and table forms simultaneously.

Students can easily work in pairs. When done in the computer lab, the ideal situation is for each student to be sitting at his/her own computer. While working with a partner, they use Microsoft Works and Analyzer* simultaneously. One student’s computer can run one application while the partner's computer runs the other. This makes it easier to see a graphical representation of the information on the spreadsheet during the compound interest activity on day 1 and day 2. If students work independently, they may launch both applications simultaneously on the same computer and switch between active windows (This works well if you have "nice Macs") to see the information in a table view and graphically at the same time.

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