[nabs-l] Maths course.

Rebecca Weber weberrebecca232 at gmail.com
Wed Jun 10 18:25:24 UTC 2015


Hi. You could try a course from the Hadley School For The Blind. I'm not sure if they are in other languages. That's great you're looking for a math course. Hope that helps. Good luck.

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> On Jun 10, 2015, at 2:12 PM, Sandra Gayer via nabs-l <nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Hello everyone,
> I've never been great at maths. It was taught rather visually when I
> was at school although there were Braille resources; graph paper, wiki
> sticks, Cubi-Rhythm etc. Anyway, I've decided to do something about
> it. Does anyone know where I can access a maths course that's aimed at
> visually impaired people? Preferably something that doesn't rely on
> visual cues or imagery. An audio course or electronic course? Baring
> in mind that I don't live in America.
> 
> Thanks again,
> very best wishes,
> Sandra.
> 
>> On 6/10/15, Littlefield, Tyler via nabs-l <nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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>> Hello:
>> I'll second what david said mostly.
>> You'll want at least 8 gb, 16 is probably overkill. My tablet has 8
>> and I do some fairly intensive work.
>> I3 is pretty cheap but you will not get the same performance. Having
>> seen the size of some law books, you'll want more processing power to
>> parse and read them. I recommend the i5. This will also help Jaws and
>> make everything generally faster.
>> Also as david said, you will need a 64 bit system. It's generally
>> quicker and will allow you to address higher than 3.something gb ram
>> (PAE included).
>> 
>> HTH,
>>> On 6/10/2015 1:06 PM, David Andrews via nabs-l wrote:
>>> Without knowing the specs of either, in general, the i5 would be
>>> better than the I3, newer, faster etc.  However, as important, or
>>> more important is adequate memory, that is primary problem with
>>> your 2 gig machine.  I would consider 4 to be the absolute minimum
>>> with a screen reader, 8 or 16 if you run a lot of tasks, and
>>> machine is 64 bit.  A 32 bit machine can't address above 4.
>>> 
>>> Dave
>>> 
>>> At 03:51 AM 6/10/2015, you wrote:
>>>> Hi All,
>>>> 
>>>> I am planning to buy a new laptop and am confused between two
>>>> machines: Dell Inspiron 3148 and 7348. My confusion stems from
>>>> the fact that the former runs on an I3 processor, whereas the
>>>> latter runs on an I5 processor. While I have been able to acquire
>>>> a fairly detailed understanding of the differences between these
>>>> two on the basis of some online research, I would be extremely
>>>> grateful if any of you could speak to the differences between
>>>> these 2 processors from the standpoint of a JAWS user. More
>>>> specifically, I am a law student and use my laptop for reading a
>>>> lot of documents, using MS Office, email, social networking and
>>>> am acquired to use highly advanced MS Word functions like track
>>>> changes and footnotes all the time. Further, I have to work with
>>>> multiple applications like Adobe Reader, MS Word and a web
>>>> browser simultaneously. I am really frustrated with the
>>>> performance of the machine that I currently have, as it runs on a
>>>> Dual Core processor and merely has 2gb RAM. While I am really
>>>> keen to go for the Inspiron 7348, it is a lot more expensive than
>>>> the 3148 which is why I am not sure which one I should choose.
>>>> Any concrete suggestions would be immensely appreciated.
>>>> 
>>>> Best, Rahul
>>> 
>>> 
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