[Blindmath] college and math

[Jason White]

Sina Bahram <sbahram at nc.rr.com> wrote:
> I respectfully will disagree with this. I think everyone has unique learning
> styles for sure, but it's sort of equivalent  to saying that sighted
> students can do math without any print available. Sometimes, that's
> absolutely true, to varying extents, but usually, it's far from it.

I concur.
> 
> Especially for the fundamentals, I think Braille is essential.

Agreed.

I've heard reliable reports of students' spending a lot of time taking braille
notes from audio narrations of mathematics texts, then working from the
braille notes. This adds considerably to a student's workload. The point,
though, is that it's the braille which is used in such cases for learning the
material.

It wouldn't surprise me if there are people who can listen to a reading of a
complex mathematical text and understand it from the recording, but I strongly
suspect that those people are in a minority.