[Blindmath] Pascal's Triangle in Braille?

Alexa Schriempf ats169 at psu.edu
Wed Jul 30 23:42:14 UTC 2014


Teacher wanted to teach the use of the hockey stick trick....this was for
math 35, theory of math, for non math majors.




On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 7:40 PM, Joseph C. Lininger <
devnull-blindmath at pcdesk.net> wrote:

> Is there a reason why the triangle itself is necessary? What I mean is,
> can the student use the numbers written out in rows, or something like a
> binomial expantion to calculate them? If knowing the properties isn't
> necessary, and the student just needs to be able to do combinations, could
> they not just use the n choose r (NCR) formula to work it out? Just a
> couple of thoughts that might make things easier.
>



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