[blparent] Just Curious
E. Tarr
esquared100 at gmail.com
Sun Sep 13 02:52:06 UTC 2009
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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