[nabs-l] Math in College: Symbols and Readers

[Beth]

Thankfully, I never took college math away from human readers.  
Refer to the recent lawsuit of FSU, where the mathematics 
department gave two of my good blind friends a hard time.  
E-grade is coming of age, so to speak, so one thing I'd do is 
beware of online math stuff and talk with a professor about 
things such as Course Compass, E-grade, and so on, and if the 
software is something that has a strange name that doesn't seem 
to fit with JAWS's scripts, don't use it.
Beth

 ----- Original Message -----
From: "Marsha Drenth" <marsha.drenth at gmail.com
To: "'National Association of Blind Students mailing list'" 
<nabs-l at nfbnet.org
Date sent: Thu, 1 Sep 2011 17:14:04 -0400
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Math in College: Symbols and Readers

I never just use readers. My school has been wonderful in 
brailling my
college math textbooks. Yes I will use readers for tests, but not 
to just
use to learn the material. I will use the same reader for tests, 
to scribe
for the test. And I will work with the professor or someone else 
to describe
the math symbols. For the charts, graphis, it is really best to 
have a
Braille version. As far as homeowork, find a reader/scribe that 
will help
write down your problems in print.

As far as the professor is hard to understand, ask questions, ask 
questions.
Ask for help outside of class, and get a tutor if need be.

Math is a hard subject, its hard being a blind student taking 
math, but by
no means is it impossible. Its going to take lots of hard work.

Marsha


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[mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
Of Jordyn Castor
Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2011 3:48 PM
To: nabs-l at nfbnet.org
Subject: [nabs-l] Math in College: Symbols and Readers

Hey everyone,
I've just started my first semester in college and I'm wondering 
about
what advice you can give for math classes. Do most of you just 
use
readers, and if so, what for? Second, how do write the symbols 
for the
class like the Union symbol and Epsalon, and all that stuff? How 
do you
draw graphs or do you describe them? What do you do when 
assignments or
quizes have to be submitted electronically? How do you turn in 
your
answers for tests and quizes and make them look presentable with 
the
symbols drawn correctly and things like that? Have any of you had
professors who you can barely understand and how do you deal with 
this?
Do you have any other advice?
Thanks for the help,
Jordyn

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