[BlindKid] Math Homework on the PC- videos

Mon Jan 27 14:22:11 UTC 2020

Here are a few--many more on the site--PC computer, braille display--40
cells, Jaws in Word and excel--Desmos graphing calc on website

Math- make a curved line in a graph using Excel --option with talking
software <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=momCqtdMSM0>

Geometry on the computer for blind/low vision students-using excel and
shapes in graphs <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkF8cboxWLA>

<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yV57VzibkU>
Excel - Geometry & insert shapes and label graph
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yV57VzibkU>

Quadratic Trend-line with scatter plot graph including equation in Excel
with Jaws talking software  <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VlVlQBTcdE>

Excel-labeling everything in a graph with talking software
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gnm_WMrNaZ8>

Hundreds of other videos at https://www.youtube.com/user/yourtechvision

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On Sat, Jan 25, 2020 at 6:33 PM Rashmi and Shailendra Mittal via BlindKid <
blindkid at nfbnet.org> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> Can you please share how math is done using Braille Display/Word. Is
> there's a tutorial/video somewhere which we can watch to learn more about
> it. My daughter is in 8th grade and we trying to figure how she can solve
> math problems. She has a braillnote touch and a laptop.
>
> Thanks
> Shail
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: BlindKid <blindkid-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of marianne via
> BlindKid
> Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2020 5:59 PM
> To: 'Blind Kid Mailing List, (for parents of blind children)' <
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> Cc: marianne at denningweb.com
> Subject: Re: [BlindKid] Math Homework on the PC
>
> I hate to be the one to throw a wet blanket on college disability services
> but the quality varies widely. That is why it is absolutely critical that
> your students learn self-advocacy skills while they are in school. Once
> students enter college and vocational rehabilitation you cannot talk to the
> service providers. Your children will need self-advocacy skills for the
> rest of their lives.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: BlindKid <blindkid-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Jess Trask via
> BlindKid
> Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2020 4:13 PM
> To: Blind Kid Mailing List, (for parents of blind children) <
> blindkid at nfbnet.org>
> Cc: Jess Trask <jessandellie101611 at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [BlindKid] Math Homework on the PC
>
> Traci,
> Your kids will have access to disabled students services at most any
> college that they will attend. And some help assistive technology special
> on staff will access what they need. Or their Vocational Rehabilitation
> Counselor who can also have an accesstive technology assessment done  to
> see what will help them in college.The counselor would be able to share
> that with the disabled student office at the college.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On Jan 14, 2020, at 13:48, Traci W via BlindKid <blindkid at nfbnet.org>
> wrote:
> >
> > So what is the solution when kids go to college and no longer have
> > the braille display?  Shouldn't kids move to full Word/Math combo if
> possible?
> >
> > I'm still figuring this out for my kids - once I am done with my O&M
> > studies (this semester) - I can concentrate on this more fully - I
> > know we have touched on it a couple times in previous conversations -
> > I didn't realize the kids were using braille displays though, like you
> > mentioned above.
> >
> > Thanks!
> > Traci Wilkerson
> >
> >
> >> On Tue, Jan 14, 2020 at 1:39 PM Dr Denise M Robinson via BlindKid <
> >> blindkid at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> 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
> >>
> >> * Dr Denise M Robinson*
> >>
> >> *Denise M Robinson, TVI, PhD*
> >>
> >> Specialist-Technology/Blind Skills | Teacher of the Blind and
> >> Visually Impaired
> >> 425-220-6935 |
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> >> *Life* isn't about waiting for the storm to pass...it's about
> >> learning to
> >> *dance* in the rain!
> >>
> >> [image: TechVision Logo]
> >> “Helping the visually impaired see their world changed through
> technology”
> >> "While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was
> done."
> >> --Helen Keller
> >> "Everybody is a genius, but if you judge a fish by its ability to
> >> climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid."
> >>    ~Albert Einstein
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Tue, Jan 14, 2020 at 12:46 PM marianne via BlindKid <
> >> blindkid at nfbnet.org>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> 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.
> >>>
> >>> -----Original Message-----
> >>> From: BlindKid <blindkid-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of
> >>> Coccovizzo,Linda A via BlindKid
> >>> Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2020 12:14 PM
> >>> To: Blind Kid Mailing List, (for parents of blind children)
> >>> (blindkid at nfbnet.org) <blindkid at nfbnet.org>
> >>> Cc: Coccovizzo,Linda A <Linda.Coccovizzo at MCCKC.EDU>
> >>> 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
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