[blparent] Just Curious

[E. Tarr]

Hi, Jo.
     I was taught to use the abacus in early elementary school, and I used 
it well into high school.  I used the scientific calculator on the Braille 
Lite for advanced levels of algebra.  Besides that, I just used my abacus 
and braille writer and even slate and stylus for math problems.  By the way, 
I forgot to mention that I graduated high school in '98.

Ellen Elizabeth

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jo Elizabeth Pinto" <jopinto at pcdesk.net>
To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, September 11, 2009 11:55 PM
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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