Make A Difference From Jan Phillips, a special education teacher at Woodruff Elementary School in Woodruff, South Carolina: "My students have a difficult time understanding and solving math problems which involve the difference between and how much more or less of one than the other. Now we play the game, Make A Difference... Reach Out and Touch Someone. Here's how it works: I give a computational math problem involving subtraction and/or the difference such as 9 - 6 = 3 and ask the students to pair together. One student shows 9 fingers and the other student shows 6 fingers. The pair of students then touch finger to finger. What's the difference? The number of fingers not touching! This activity seems to have improved cooperative behaviors and verbal communication as student pairs converse to accomplish the common goal."