[BlindKid] Math Homework on the PC

Tue Jan 14 18:45:59 UTC 2020

Yes. It does, a great deal. I've got one using a QBraille, and one using a focus 40. Is math type something that is at all needed when it comes to algebra, or will simply using word do the job.

Thanks for all you do.

Linda Coccovizzo
Seasonal Project Coordinator
Metropolitan Community College
Office: 816-604-1442
3200 Broadway, Kansas City, MO 64111
linda.coccovizzo at mcckc.edu

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Hi Linda
All of our blind students do all their math work in word-- we do have a few who have difficulties with math concepts so will outputs math work as needed so we gauge toward cognitive level..

We have been teachingthis way for around 18 years. They read from a Nemeth code math book so the braille is under their fingers and then they output it in word using a braille display. Then of course email it to their teachers just like their peers.
You can do UEB math or Nemeth code math depending on what they have learned on a good braille display.  The majority of people are still using Nemeth code. Most of our students use the focus 40.
Hope this helps

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On Tue, Jan 14, 2020 at 12:46 PM marianne via BlindKid <blindkid at nfbnet.org>
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> Yes, it is possible. You can check out yourtechvision.com for some 
> Youtube videos that may help you understand. The Braille display will 
> output UEB math symbols but they can definitely learn to recognize 
> those very quickly.
>
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> Coccovizzo,Linda A via BlindKid
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> Subject: [BlindKid] Math Homework on the PC
>
> I apologize for those of you who have already seen this question come 
> across the FB group. I'm just picking as many brains as I can right 
> now.
>
> At work at the community college, I do a lot with transcribing math 
> into braille for our blind students. I don't know how they are turning 
> their work in, because we have never, or at least not recently, 
> received their math homework to put into print for their professors. 
> My girls are doing their math homework on a braille writer. Is it 
> possible for them to use a braille display with a PC, to do their 
> math, and turn it in with the rest of their peers? There may be 
> braille notetakers in their future for this, but for the time being, I 
> would like to know if, and how it can be done on the PC.
>
> Linda Coccovizzo
> Seasonal Project Coordinator
> Metropolitan Community College
> Office: 816-604-1442
> 3200 Broadway, Kansas City, MO
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