[Maths-Education] RE: Teaching Mathematics

[tr202 at cam.ac.uk]

Dear Michael,

I can add that Lulu Healy and her colleagues have also been working in this 
area. I suggest that you google Lulu and "visually impaired" for papers etc.
Tim Rowland
Faculty of Education
University of Cambridge


--On 03 March 2009 10:20 +0000 "Ernest, Paul" <P.Ernest at exeter.ac.uk> wrote:

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> I read your message and wanted to draw your attention to two papers of
> relevance to your inquiry freely available on the web
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> The papers are:
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> SPECIAL STUDENTS
> Oliv G. Klingenberg  Geometry: Educational Implications for Children with
> Visual Impairment (doc, 4Mb) Mariella Tanti   Teaching Mathematics to a
> Blind Student - A Case Study (pdf, 5Mb)
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> These are from
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> Philosophy of Mathematics Education Journal No. 20 (June 2007)   ISSN
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> Hello,
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> I am sorry to trouble, I am currently in placement teaching Essential
> Skills Maths, mostly at Level 2 and was wondering if i could ask some
> advice.
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> I am totally blind and am trying to find solutions to make the teaching
> of the more visual aspects easier for me to convey to the learners.
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> I also mentor students for GCSE maths, and am not sure what will be the
> best to describe to them rotation scaling etc. In the case of the
> students for GCSE, the students are totally blind also, with the
> essential Skills class, they are all mostly sighted.
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> Can you help?
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> Many thanks
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> Michael Moore
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