[Blindmath] New products being developed

[Casey West]

I teach both elementary school and middle school and use math type and scientific notebook depending on what school I'm at. Both work well with that age group. 

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On Sep 11, 2012, at 8:49 PM, "Sarah Jevnikar" <sarah.jevnikar at mail.utoronto.ca> wrote:

> Hi Ruchi,
> I don't mean to be a wet blanket, and maybe there are products available I'm
> not aware of, but the surest math product at the moment is still Braille,
> and if you're in North America, Nemeth code. Is your son becoming familiar
> with it? It's essential he should for future success and the ability to keep
> pace with his sighted peers. The only suggestion I have for you would be
> Nemetex, which does a pretty good job (though the Nemeth must be very
> accurate) of translating Nemeth into LaTeX, a common markup language which
> can be translated into standard print math using programs such as MiKTeX or
> Scientific Notebook. Math Type is a good program, but I'd wonder if learning
> LaTeX at age 9 would be advisable unless your son is really into
> computer-type things: it can be quite a learning curve initially.
> 
> I'm not a developer nor a particularly skilled technical person as I had the
> luxury of itinerant teachers who could transcribe my Nemeth hard copy
> Braille into print for my sighted teachers throughout public school, so I'm
> sure others will have greater insight than I.
> Sarah
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Ruchi Patil
> Sent: September 11, 2012 6:30 AM
> To: 'Blind Math list for those interested in mathematics'
> Subject: [Blindmath] New products being developed
> 
> Dear all, 
> 
> 
> 
> Are there any products under development for use by elementary, middle or
> high school level kids for mathematics? What is the best forum to find out
> about it?
> 
> 
> 
> Warm regards, 
> 
> Ruchi
> 
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