[Blindmath] Math window

[annajee82 at gmail.com]

Thanks for the input everyone!  My main question was, in fact, about the storage system.  How are the pieces stored?  Is this a portable product?  How is it organized?  I have gotten a magnetic board and a bunch of letters and numbers and other shapes that I can use to represent symbols, but then I have not yet come up with a way to store all these magnets and be able to access them in an efficient way.  Also, in my case there are a lot of letters needed as part of what I do is chemistry, so you have to keep track of not only numbers, but also letters for elements, symbols, and units.  I think this makes it even harder to find what you need when there are so many different things to use in setting up a problem.
Any thoughts on that would be appreciated, and I also would still like to hear more about this product as well from others who may have used it.
Thanks


Anna E Givens


> On Mar 24, 2016, at 10:24 PM, Jennifer Benelli via Blindmath <blindmath at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi Anna,
> 
> I've used this product.  You are correct; It is a magnet board with numbers and symbols (One kit is for geometry, another kit's for division and multiplication). 
> The little pieces are in nemeth braille so a student can use the  symbols to demonstrate his/her knowledge or solve a problem.
> Great kit.  
> It also teaches the strategy of keeping an organization system.  In short, all those little symbol pieces are only useful if the student can find what they need when they need it.  So we actually used the back of a cookie sheet to set up a system for keeping the symbols sorted and categorized.
> My low vision students use the kit that is in LP while my braille users used the brailled kit (which has print for non-braille readers to see their work).
> It was super for tests or for practice.
> 
> Jeni Benelli, TVI SMCOE
> 
> 
> From:   Anna via Blindmath <blindmath at nfbnet.org> 
> To:   <blindmath at nfbnet.org>, Nfb Science Email <nfb-science at nfbnet.org> 
> Cc:   <annajee82 at gmail.com>
> Sent:   3/24/2016 7:02 PM 
> Subject:   [Blindmath] Math window 
> 
> Has anyone ever used this product called Math Window?  I think it's a magnetic board that comes with numbers and maybe some symbols.  Is anyone familiar with this? 
> 
> Anna E Givens 
> 
> 
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