ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on issues relevant to the teaching of maths, particularly basic arithmetic skills, to pupils who have considerable difficulties in this area of work. These difficulties, for many pupils and especially those with learning difficulties, can be related to the essentially conceptual nature of the subject. Children with SEN are easily confused by what is required by the processes of maths and may have little sense of what is expected to answer questions which have been posed. For these pupils even the apparently simplest of arithmetic tasks can be at a level which they find difficult without any form of tactile aids.
