[Blindmath] Place Value Setter - Seeking Field Evaluators

[Li Zhou]

Dear teachers of students with visual impairments:

    APH is seeking field evaluators for a new math product Place Value Setter.

    The Place Value Setter, offered in braille and large print, is a
fun, hands-on way for students to learn about and develop a firm
understanding of the basic math concept, numeric place value. With its
refreshable and concrete display, this tool provides students with
blindness or low vision with an immediate way to set up numbers (e.g.,
"329" for "three hundred and twenty-nine"). This tool is especially
useful in inclusive math classrooms as it enables teachers of students
with visual impairments to set up numbers promptly for their students.
The students can then duplicate their math teachers' daily numeric
demonstrations and exercises, and thus participate in the same
on-the-spot classroom activities as their sighted peers.

    Field evaluators will be asked to use this tool with multiple 1st
- 3rd grade math students with blindness or low vision. Evaluators
will then complete and return a product evaluation form at the end of
the testing period. Field test sites will be selected based upon
geographic location, number of available students, and type of
instructional setting. Field testing will begin in September and will
be completed by the end of November 2015.

    If you are interested in serving as a field evaluator, please
provide the following information:

a. your name, title, school/agency, and type of setting (e.g.,
residential, itinerant);

b. number of available students. Include the students’ ages, grade
levels, and primary reading media modes (please note that 1st – 3rd
grade students who are studying the concept of place value in their
math classes are preferred);

c. your preferred medium for reading evaluation materials and
completing the evaluation form (regular print/large
print/braille/electronic); and

d. your complete contact information (phone number, mailing address,
and e-mail address).

    Please send this information to Li Zhou, Core Curriculum Project
Leader, at lzhou at aph.org by August 31, 2015. You may also contact Li
at 800-223-1839, ext. 424.

    Thank you!

Li Zhou
lzhou at aph.org