Re: Visually challenged students and the graphing calculator

Geoffrey Akst (akst@CHELSEA.IOS.COM)
Tue, 21 Jan 1997 20:35:11 -0500

I have run across a scientific calculator for blind students, but never a
graphing calculator. And the scientific calculator for blind students (I
believe that it talked) was very expensive -- about $500 per. What about
reproducing graphs on a geoboard which can then be felt?

Geoff Akst
Manhattan CC

At 5:51 PM -0500 1/21/97, Else Robertson wrote:
>Help !!!
> I do not mean to interrupt your lottery discussion but I really need your
>help
>. Chances are that I will have a visually challenged student in my college
>alge
>bra class next fall. I will be using a graphing calculator extensively.
>However
> this student cannot see the keys on the calculator, the screen on the
>calculat
>or or the projection from the viewscreen. Many of the activities in the
>class a
>re of an investigative nature so the students need to be able to test
>their ide
>as. This makes it very hard to work with a "notetaker". My future student
>can s
>ee what is written on the viewscreen if he holds it at a specific angle
>and tap
>es a piece of white cardboard on the back. I am sure one or more of you
>are/hav
>e been in my situation. What kind of technology is out there? Where can I
>get i
>t from? and how much does it cost ? and where would that money come from?
> Thank you for your time and have a great day. ER

Geoffrey Akst
Manhattan CC/Mathematics
akst@chelsea.ios.com
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