[Blindmath] Calculus, Mathematica, and the Macintosh

[Sean Tikkun]

Mathematica has a GUI interface?  Wow I'm showing me age!  My dept. chair wrote a great book on learning calculus through animation and programming.  The animation is obviously not helpful, but the code in "animating Calculus" and the problem types they solve could be a nice resource.  The book is by Stan Wagon and Ed Packel.  I am writing Packel about getting an accessible copy.  I'll keep folks informed.


On Jan 21, 2014, at 10:15 AM, Pielaet, Jon <JPielaet at clark.edu> wrote:

> Mathematica does in fact have a command line interface.
> 
> Here is a page that describes using Mathematica without the graphical interface:
> 
> http://pages.uoregon.edu/noeckel/Mathematica.html
> 
> Good luck in your courses.
> 
> Sincerely, 
> 
> 
> Jon Pielaet
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Blindmath [mailto:blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Suzanne Germano
> Sent: Saturday, January 18, 2014 5:45 PM
> To: Blind Math list for those interested in mathematics
> Subject: Re: [Blindmath] Calculus, Mathematica, and the Macintosh
> 
> There are some websites that do that. One of the best is wolfram alpha. I
> don't know if it works with voiceover but you can try it for free
> 
> I find it very interesting they want the students to use a ti 89. I am a
> computer science student and have taken calculus 1,2 and 3. I am currently
> in applied linear slfebra. We were specifically told no ti 89 because they
> do derivatives snd integrals and we needed to be able to do them ourselves
> since that was the pirpose of the class.
> 
> You can google for websites that solve integrals and derivatives that is
> ehat i did to verify homework. Then you could try them out to check
> accessabilty with voiceover.
> 
> Suzanne
> 
> On Saturday, January 18, 2014, Smith, Andrew <smitha3 at students.rowan.edu>
> wrote:
> 
>> Hello all,
>> I am a college student majoring in Computer Science.  This semester, I
>> am taking a Calculus course, and I will be needing a program that
>> evaluates limits, sums, derivatives, integrals, simplifies fractions,
>> etc.  The obvious candidate is Mathematica, however from what I can
>> gather, it is inaccessible on the Macintosh with VoiceOver.
>> 
>> Is there a way to make Mathematica accessible on the Macintosh; or,
>> failing that, is there another program that is preferred?  The rest of
>> the class will be using the TI89 calculator, but to the best of my
>> knowledge there is no way to make that accessible.
>> 
>> I will also be needing to read documents that utilize MathType.  Is
>> there a way to read this with a screen reader?
>> Thanks for all help and suggestions.
>> 
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