[blparent] Just Curious

[Melissa Ann Riccobono]

I graduated in 1997 and did learn some abacus, but never anything complex
such as multiplication and division.  The talking calculator was never
really introduced to me; my older sister, who is also blind, got one and so
I just started using hers to check my answers at home when I was in fourth
or fifth grade.  When I was in high school I had a scientific calculator for
logs, sin, cosin, etc.  I don't know if the abacus is still taught today.  I
think it depends a lot on the teacher of blind students.  Some still teach
it; others don't.
Melissa

-----Original Message-----
From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Jo Elizabeth Pinto
Sent: Friday, September 11, 2009 11:56 PM
To: NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List
Subject: [blparent] Just Curious

Hi.  I'm proofreading a third grade math book right now, and it's got me
curious about something.  When I was in school, I learned math on the
abacus.  It wasn't really all that different from the way other kids were
learning, except I used the abacus instead of pencil and paper.  But in the
math books I see now, they're using a lot of different ways to teach.  So,
for those of you who are younger than I am--I graduated from high school in
1989--is the abacus still taught to blind children?  Are other ways of doing
math taught as well?  When are talking calculators introduced?  (Talking
calculators came out when I was in the fifth or sixth grade, I think, and
they were about twice the size of the ones now, with half the speech
quality.)  Anyway, I was just wondering.

Jo Elizabeth

Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify
the hunters.--African Proverb
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