[Blindmath] integration question

[Ryan Thomas]

Dear Minh,

   I understand the frustration, but the rectangle and trapazoidal
approximation probably won't last long.  It's not a very large part of
integration at all.  If you have Matlab I would suggest you find a
program that does such a thing, but as I said this short section will
probably pass by the time you would get that figured out.
   As to sigma notation... it looks weird everywhere-in print, braille
or otherwise.  You can use the special symbols table in word to write
it out, but Jaws won't read a lot of Greek letters without some
adaptation.  What I do is simply write out greek letters in words such
as sigma, rho, tao etc.  In the Braillenote you're probably going to
be best off either writing the sigma notation out linearly (there are
symbols for that) or making up your own short hand notation that you
can understand.  Looking back on this email I don't feel it was very
helpful, but that's how I got through AP Calc so... good luck.

Sincerely,
   Ryan

On 1/31/11, minh ha <minh.ha927 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hii,
>
> I’m taking AP Calculus and we’re doing the Rectangle Approximation
> Method and Trapezoidal Rule for integration at the moment. I was
> wondering if you guys have any suggestions or know of any programs to
> attack this problem. My classmates have graphing calculators and my
> teachers gave them a couple of programs to put in to their calculators
> so they could figure out problems without drawing the rectangles and
> trapezoids out by hand. It’s also a lot easier to figure out problems
> that require really small intervals. I’m currently drawing rectangles
> out on raised graph paper, but this takes an excessive amount of time
> and is not really efficient. I have the Audio Graphing Calculator, but
> I don’t think it supports the RAM. However, I don’t know all of AGC’s
> capabilities, so maybe it does?
> Also, we are doing sigma notation which looks extremely weird in
> Braille. Is there anyway to write it correctly in Microsoft word using
> Greek letters? Could the Braille note have a way to write this
> notation as well?
>
> Thanks so much for your help
>
> Minh
>
>
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