[Blindmath] accessible online math resources

Wed May 11 13:50:03 UTC 2011

I was waiting for other replies to this because I accidently deleted the question.  Anyway I know most hate learning math from recordings but I did all my college work with the RFBD tapes.  I found them very good.  Now that most are online for downloading It might be a good resource.  The hard part is knowing where to start so you don't get lost.    I guess  start where you are in school and see  how far you can get without help.  Do not think for a second you cannot do this math without Braille.  I made it through college without Braille because sorry but I have only been blind half of my 40 years and Braille hates me almost as much as I hate it.  Not to mention I took the math classes before I seriously got into Braille.

So if your let's say at Algebra II  level you could look for a course like algebra in a college then look at the books they are using.  You will be amazed at how many of them are actually recorded and being that math doesn't change that much you can pick old books or new it really doesn't matter just find one that explains things well.   I remember one of the Calculus books the reader would actually stop and correct errors in the books which I found amusing.

Ken

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From: blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Stephen L Noble
Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2011 8:53 AM
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Subject: Re: [Blindmath] accessible online math resources

Design Science has a page which lists several online math courses built with MathML. I don't have enough familiarity with the sites to comment on other accessibility aspects of the sites mentioned (e.g., use of alt text on images, navigation intelligibility, etc.), but at least all the math equations will be accessible if you are using Internet Explorer with MathPlayer. Here's the page:
http://www.dessci.com/en/reference/webmath/resources.htm 

Hope this helps,

--Steve Noble

>>> "Littlefield, Tyler" <tyler at tysdomain.com> 5/10/2011 1:38 AM >>>
hello all:
I have had some rather fragmented math between algebra and algebra2, not 
to mention I haven't done much in it for a while. I took a refresher 
course this year in college, but I have a question. I'm pretty good at 
math, especially when I can read something and then work examples, and 
check my answer, I have a friend who is willing to help out some, but he 
can't teach me everything. So this leads me to a question; are there 
resources out there for algebra, trig and calculous? I want to teach 
myself what I don't know and just pass through what I can so I can test 
out of some of these classes, as well as use the knowledge for other 
projects. I have been into software development for a few years now, and 
I have started looking into cryptography; as that is based entirely on 
math, I want a good understanding of what I need as well as resources to 
teach me what I don't know.

I have checked google a few different times. One of the first things I 
remember looking into was vectors, and I have checked into this a few 
times since. I want to get into audio game development, and I will need 
vectors in order to coordenate movements through out the game world, as 
well as define the position from which sounds are played. While I found 
some useful information and some code to help me out, a lot of what I 
found was pictures which rendered the information pretty much useless. 
There weren't just pictures of the vectors, but often the formulas and 
calculations themselves would be a picture with no alt-tag so that I can 
read it with either a screen reader or a braille display.

Any information would be appreciated.

-- 

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