[nfbcs] Math software

[Suzanne Germano]

This is ridiculous. Can't bring books home?

The books need to be supplied by the district in either large print or
braille or electronic. Even in the 1970's I got my books in large print. I
even went to Catholic school from 5th-8th grade but still got services from
the public schools including the large print books. In high school I was
provided a note taker. The student should have an itinerant teach provided
who would make sure class formulas and diagrams are made accessible.
Accessible media should be part of the IEP.


On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 5:26 AM, Mike Jolls <majolls at cox.net> wrote:

> I was at our NFB chapter meeting the other night and some of the kids I was
> chatting with were saying how difficult it is to do math.
>
> I could relate since I remember sitting in class when I had zero technology
> and couldn't read the board ... you sort of just zone out.
>
> They told me that some of the schools (high school I believe) don't let you
> take the book home.  And since they can't see what's going on in the class
>
> and can't take the book home, they struggle terribly.  Also, some were
> saying even if they could take the book, they couldn't read it, and some
>
> said their parents didn't know enough math to help them.  Bottom line, math
> was a huge struggle for these kids.
>
>
>
> I haven't done any searching, but I was wondering if there are software
> solutions out there that could allow some of the following:
>
>
>
> 1. The textbook is in accessible format so that a student can access it at
> home or at school with Jaws/Braille.
>
> 2. Allows the teacher to compose lessons - when the student can't read the
> book and doesn't have access to an electronic version of the book.
>
> 3. Allows teacher (as part of composition) to enter the problems to be
> solved in a "problem set".
>
> 4. Teacher should be able to save to disk, web, etc
>
> 4. Allows students to access the lessons from disk/web and problems
> composed
> by the teacher.
>
> 5. If student can't solve the problem presented, have an automated
> "solution
> solver" that will take student step by step through the solution.
>
> Student should be able to see a line by line solution so they can see the
> steps necessary to solve the problem.
>
> 6. Allow student to work the problems and have computer check the solution
> and tell student when right or wrong.
>
> 7. If homework, allow student to compose solution and save to disk or
> upload
> to web.
>
> 8. Allow teacher to access students work for grading.
>
>
>
> Does anybody know if something like this is available?  Granted, this would
> NOT be trivial software to write, but having something like this would
> allow
> the students to deal with complex math such as elementary algebra,
> intermediate algebra, trig, etc, and get it in a format they can deal with.
> I think I would have found this useful back in the stone age when I was in
> high school.
>
>
>
> Anybody know of anything?  Or, would you reply.... "you're a software guy,
> write it!".
>
>
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
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