[nabs-l] Statistics course

Sun Jan 6 23:55:07 UTC 2013

Mauricio,

If you would like more information about the BrailleSense you can go
to www.hims-inc.com.
I use a BrailleSense On-Hand and have loved it so far.  They're pretty
easy to learn just through trial and error too, as long as you are at
least somewhat techy so you shouldn't have a problem there.  :)

On 1/6/13, Kaiti Shelton <crazy4clarinet104 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Ashley,
>
> I looked into finding a talking calculator, but none of them that I've
> found handle graphing or statistics problems.  It's not that I don't
> know how to use a calculator in it's basic sense, it's just the weird
> equasion buttons like ABC or other things like that I don't get.  I
> don't think those who suggested the conceptual approach meant that the
> person would be doing my work.  If I ask them to plug in a matrix
> equasion with x, y, and z in a specific order, it's the same concept
> just without all the nitty gritty details of each button.  And I'm
> telling the reader the specific equasion to use, so it's not like
> they're just going to do it for me.
>
> I know this is going to sound like I'm making excuses, but I really
> don't think I'd have time to go through the work twice with my
> schedule, and I wouldn't have a reliable person to do it.  I'm taking
> 22 credits this semester so unless I take the ds's approach of
> scheduling homework time with a tutor so they can take down my answers
> as I go I am not sure if scheduling would allow for it.  I also am not
> keen on the idea of paying a math tutor when I don't really need
> tutoring, (It's bad enough I have to pay rent on a TI84+ graphing
> calculator which I can't use myself), just some way to get the work
> back to my teacher.  I would love to just do braille as I have done in
> high school, but in picking and choosing my battles it's not something
> I'm willing to make a big deal of.  Worst case scenario I can write
> out in text any signs or things I don't know how to write with the
> qwerty and ask my professor to clarify for future use.
>
>
> On 1/6/13, Ashley Bramlett <bookwormahb at earthlink.net> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> You need to tell a reader what to press on calculators as they cannot do
>> the
>>
>> work for you.
>> Why not get a talking calculator which looks like the print scientific
>> calculators. Then use a tutor to learn how to do math with it.
>> Also, in terms of transcribing work, you don't have to do it on a pc;
>> after
>>
>> all don't sighted students do it in print?
>> If they use print and scrap paper for their work, you should be able to
>> use
>>
>> braille and your brailler!
>> Just read someone your math problems and they write it in print as you
>> dictate it.
>> In this way, you help them transcribe your work.
>>
>> Ashley
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Kaiti Shelton
>> Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2013 11:58 AM
>> To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
>> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Statistics course
>>
>> Hi Bridget,
>>
>> I have a question based on your last email.  I too am starting my
>> stats course next week and am a little worried about my assignments
>> and such.  I had a really old-school braille instructor who taught me
>> to use a Perkins brailler all through high school math, but now my
>> disability services people want me to learn math player and do
>> everything on the computer, which is a little intimidating simply
>> because I've never used the computer for math before.  They want me to
>> do this though since there is no practical way to translate the
>> braille, as we don't have a transcriber or anyone sighted who could
>> convert my answers.  They also want me to sit with someone and tell
>> them which buttons to push every time we use a graphing calculator.  I
>> suggested checking out the stats functions in the BrailleSense
>> calculator as well as AGC, but they claim it doesn't have all the
>> functions my professor wants us to use.  Like the computer, I'm not
>> familiar with print calculators, obviously since I've never used one.
>> I know they have random buttons like ABC and such, but I don't know
>> what those do and wouldn't know when to use them.  I'm not really
>> comfortable going into stats using these things I've never used
>> before.  Would you, or anyone else, have other suggestions?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>
>> On 1/6/13, Bridget Walker <bridgetawalker13 at aol.com> wrote:
>>> Hi Justin,
>>> During my first year of college I took college algebra and I have a
>>> friend
>>> who took psychology statistics last year. We are both Braille readers. I
>>> found it was helpful to take notes in my preferred format. Any
>>> assignments
>>> that I needed to turn in I had a scribe for as did she. We both took
>>> advantage of the tutoring  center and all of our accommodations.  My
>>> best
>>> advice would be speak to your professor often, if you need help along
>>> the
>>> way tutoring and direct instruction from the professor are a good way to
>>> go.
>>> I never had a problem with accommodations in any of my math or science
>>> courses and I'm sure you will be fine.
>>>
>>> Best of luck
>>>
>>> Bridget
>>>
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPad
>>>
>>> On Jan 2, 2013, at 6:58 PM, Justin Young <jty727 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi All!
>>>>
>>>> Hope the New Year is treating you all well!  I have to take a
>>>> Statistics course and haven't gone through this course before.  I was
>>>> wondering if any could give any pointers on how they survived the
>>>> course?  Any suggestions/advice would be much appreciated!
>>>>
>>>> Justin
>>>>
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