[Pibe-division] Creating Math Timed Speed Tests with Duxbury
Dr. Denise M. Robinson
dmehlenbacher at yahoo.com
Mon Sep 19 14:04:35 UTC 2011
Creating
Math Timed Speed Tests with Duxbury
Math
timings in elementary school are big: The teacher hands out a math sheet to all
the students with the math drills they have been working on. The teacher times
the students to see how fast they can complete a certain number of math problems
within a given amount of time.
Enter the blind student. The blind student
has the exact same problems, but his are brailled out on an 11x11 piece of
braille paper. He reads the problems with his left hand and prints the correct
answer with his right hand (or vice versa depending on hand dominance). He races
across the braille page at record speed to finish as high as his peers do, or
higher depending on his skills. Hence, another reason why it is so important for
blind students to learn their print letters and numbers also.
Nemeth
lessons (braille math) can be created very quickly using Duxbury Nemeth mode. Duxbury is a
print to braille, braille to print translation program. I have had para
educators who were just learning braille be able to create the perfect braille
document using this software program. I have people taking distance education
classes by 6-key brailling their lessons and emailing it to their teacher.
Duxbury is truly a gift to the blind world and its power to create a brailled
lesson quickly for anyone.
more instruction at: http://blindgeteducated.blogspot.com/
Denise
Denise M. Robinson, TVI, Ph.D.
Teacher of the Blind & Visually Impaired
TechVision-Independent Contractor
Specialist in blind programming/teaching/training
509-674-1853 deniserob at gmail.com
http://blindgeteducated.blogspot.com/
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