[blparent] Just Curious

[Veronica Smith]

I sent a message to a friend of mine who teaches an elementary VI program.
She says they no longer teach the abacus, mostly because they have to meet
district rules and curriculum and the abacus takes too long for them to
learn. V

-----Original Message-----
From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of E. Tarr
Sent: Saturday, September 12, 2009 8:52 PM
To: NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List
Subject: Re: [blparent] Just Curious

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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