[Blindmath] Struggling Mathematics Student

[kperry at blinksoft.com]

We would like to have you call our customer service here at APH and get that
Calculator fixed.  What do you mean it gave out on you.  Please email me
directly kperry at aph.org.  I am the project leader on that calculator and am
very interested in why it would not be working.

Ken

-----Original Message-----
From: Blindmath [mailto:blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Clayton
Jacobs via Blindmath
Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2014 9:26 AM
To: blindmath at nfbnet.org
Subject: [Blindmath] Struggling Mathematics Student

I am a college student currently taking College Algebra With Limits and
Statistics. In both classes, I am not doing well. In College Algebra With
Limits, the professor speeds through his lectures, and even though I type
out the equations he puts on the board, I can't keep up with him. To make
matters worse, my Orion Ti-84 Plus calculator decided to give on me after
only having it for 4 months. The note packets are inaccessible, and while
the disability department at my college is translating the packets, it is
almost too late in the semester. Additionally, the professor does not
explain the steps he uses to solve the problems, so my tutor has to do all
of the work in teaching me. While I have aced my homework, I have failed
both of my exams so far. The first exam was inaccessible, and the reader
couldn't even read the exam properly to me to even make sense of it. The
second exam, which I took yesterday, covered material not even on the review
sheet. Here was one of the problems verbatim, which I tried my best to
solve. Factor the expression into a product of linear factors given that 1-i
is a zero. f(x)=x^4-7x^3+18x^2-26x+12 In Statistics, the professor was great
in trying to get me accessible notes, but fell short when formulas were
concerned. I still do not know how to compute the standard error, margin of
error, confidence intervals, and finding probabilities between z scores or
areas. I am at a loss of what to do at this point. Trying to explain
accessibility with formulas has been a nightmare, especially with my College
Algebra With Limits professor, who has adamantly refused to translate the
equations into accessible form because that requires too much work for him,
according to his statement. I had to file a federal complaint against this
college last year for failing to accommodate, in which a mediation agreement
was reached. Yet, in many ways, it seems the faculty have treated this as a
drop in the bucket. I have had such a bad experience with collegiate
accommodations that I have questioned why I even went back to college in the
first place. 
 		 	   		  
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