[nabs-l] Statistics course

Mon Jan 7 00:00:24 UTC 2013

hello,

thank you for the link.
I'd like to believe I am at least some what techy:D so i'll probably have fun learning about it.

mauricio
On Jan 6, 2013, at 6:55 PM, Kaiti Shelton <crazy4clarinet104 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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