[Blindmath] Math for everyday use

[Sabra Ewing]

And a lot of the lectures and math classes are very passive. Teachers don't ask students questions in class, don't have students work out problems around them, and don't ask for feedback of any sort during the lecture.they ask if you understood it almost as an afterthought, But if you haven't done any problems yet, how can you know if you understand it or not? Then, you do your homework, and maybe you figure out that you don't understand it then, but a lot of math classes have the homework as a grade now, so even though you are supposed to be learning and figuring out how to do things,you are getting graded and evaluated for skills you haven't even mastered yet. You have no way to master the skills in the class and practice without being graded and evaluated.I think that before you start to be graded, you should at least have a chance to work some problems, figure out what you do and don't understand, and ask questions about what you don't understand. After you've had a chance to do that, I think it would be fair to grade, but before that, it wouldn't. It would be the same thing as evaluating someone on the job who is still in training.

Sabra Ewing

> On Dec 8, 2014, at 10:57 AM, Wilson_KC via Blindmath <blindmath at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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> I have an 8th grade blind student in pre-algebra.  She constantly asks the question, "When will I ever use this?" or "Why do I need to learn this?"  I'm going to have her do some of her own research on practical applications for math, I have some of my own ideas, but I wanted to ask you all for some "come back" answers.  I realize many of you are math geeks, but this student is not, at least at this point in time.  So can you let me know how you, as a blind person, use math in your every day life?
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