[Trainer-Talk] Virtual pencil

[Dr. Denise M Robinson]

You were not wrong Deb--it started out that way then they changed the name
with all the influence of how it worked with the computer

Side note--once my students learn nemeth and all the lay out of graphs,
they go all tech and do all this on the computer--all symbols, math
problems etc are done with special commands--this does take a PC. They love
it and of course allows them to move just as fast as their sighted peers

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On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 6:35 PM, Deborah Armstrong via Trainer-Talk <
trainer-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:

> Sorry, somehow I kept calling it electric pencil; thanks for the
> correction.
>
> The student doesn't read Braille. She's mostly done math in high school
> using a pebble magnifier; now she tries to do everything on her iPAD with
> speech.
>
> I have in the past made tactile symbols using the PIAF, cut them in to
> squares and glued them to magnets. It was a lot of work and the math tutors
> kept loosing them and the students didn't use them as much as I would have.
>
> I ended up taking the 1s and 0s home one weekend and having my husband use
> them to teach me to convert from binary to decimal and to hex. I really
> love manipulatives, but maybe as an older adult learner I'm just more
> patient.
>
> Anyway, I'm going to have to get all the math tutors to scrounge around in
> their desks to see if they can find my magnetic math symbols. I'm thinking
> they won't excite this student much.
>
> I know what would excite the student is a way to type on her iPAD
> free-form to work on equations and formulas.  The way virtual pencil
> worked. Some on another list suggested Script Calc but that's an app that
> lets you handwrite your equations in to a calculator. You can't use it to
> say, construct models.
>
> --Debee
>
>
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