[Blindmath] college and math

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This calls to mind my brother, a mechanical engineer, who took an advanced 
statistics class as part of his continuing education. He had an hour commute 
to work, so he would spend the evening before recording chapters of his stat 
book, then listen to himself read as he drove to work. I told him it was a 
good thing he was driving as that would put anyone else to sleep. (I never 
did like statistics -- I'm more an abstract algebra type.)
--le

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jason White" <jason at jasonjgw.net>
To: <blindmath at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 12:14 AM
Subject: Re: [Blindmath] college and math


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.


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