[Blindmath] Verbalizing Math

Gaylen Kapperman gkapperman at niu.edu
Wed Apr 22 14:45:24 UTC 2009


Missy, absolutely....I have just the site...the one that Jodi ad I did. go to
www.tsbvi.edu/math/projectmathaccess

and go to our spoken math pages
Kapp
At 02:57 AM 4/22/2009, you wrote:
>Missy Garber <mgarbertvi at comcast.net> wrote:
> > Can anyone recommend a good web resource to help a general education math
> > teacher best verbalize math to a class that contains a student 
> who is blind?
>
>Maybe the guidelines used by organizations that produce audio mathematics
>texts for people with print disabilities would be helpful. As far as I know,
>there aren't any widely accepted standards in this area, certainly no
>international standards, and each producing organization seems to have its own
>guidelines. At least one of them should have written these into a formal
>document, however, which might help you.
>
>Abraham Nemeth in the U.S. once wrote an article explaining the conventions
>that he asked readers to follow when verbalizing mathematics; that article may
>still be online.
>
>
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