[Blindmath] MathType Question

[Andrew Cioffi]

Hi Kate,

I'm not sure if this is what you're looking for, but MathType has the ability to take information inputted on a tablet and convert it into a "mathtype" equation.  There is a quick overview of that feature found at this link: http://www.dessci.com/en/products/mathtype/popup_mip.htm 

I am wondering if this is at minimum a less tedious way of getting his problems into Mathtype for the teacher (or whoever would be preparing his materials).

I guess there are a few important factors that would help.  I am assuming that your student is low vision.  How is your student "working the problems"?  Might the student have the ability to hand write some of the steps on something like a wacom tablet?  It works with a mouse as well, but I would imagine that to be fairly difficult for the number of problems that you student would need to get through.

We are looking into using this feature now and can report back on what we find.  Any folks have experience using this feature that might be able to offer a little more insight?

Andrew

Andrew Cioffi
Suffolk University

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From: blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Julian, Kate
Sent: Friday, August 26, 2011 8:17 AM
To: blindmath at nfbnet.org
Subject: [Blindmath] MathType Question

Hello,

I am a high school resource teacher serving a visually impaired student. Math is his area of weakness, we believe that it is partially due to spatial awareness issues. He uses Word and MathType combined in Algebra 1 class. When using the two, he clicks on a problem from the Word document which in turn goes to MathType. He works the problem and then copies it back into Word. This is cumbersome for my student. Is there a way to streamline this process? From what I have observed, MathType has a limited number of vertical lines it will accept, so he cannot use it as his primary mode for turning in his homework. Reading the problem from Braille and transferring it to MathType is tedious, and he often makes mistakes in transferring it. I look forward to many great ideas!!

Have a great day - Kate

Kate Julian






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