Dennis Roberts wrote:
> Personally, meaning NO disrespect for David's excellent text materials, I
> just don't think you can transform a regular text ... that demands and
> assumes a good VISUAL and SYMBOLIC capability ... into straight text and
> alternatives for symbols for formulas ... and have it work very well.
>
> Teaching blind students in an area like this is far more challenging and
> complex ... than that.
>
> IMHO of course
I would suppose that this depends to a large extent upon the course.
For an undergraduate intro course there are frequently very few
"display" formulae in the text, and a few paraphrases (eg, "the sum
[from * to *] of..." instead of "sigma"; "the nth datum" rather than "x
sub n") can turn most of what's left into linearly-parsable English. (We
do read these things aloud, rather than just putting them on the
overhead and pointing.)
Doing this is also an important part of teaching the material to
sighted but mathematically-immature students.
-Robert Dawson
.
.
=================================================================
Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the
problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at:
. http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ .
=================================================================
