Re: Mathematical ASL?

On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 04:57:59 -0700, William Elliot
<marsh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, David C. Ullrich wrote:
>
>> I have a deaf student in an "advanced" class. He has an
>> interpreter rendering ASL, great.
>>
>> But it's occurred to me that there may be a problem here,
>> because I'm not speaking English in class, I'm speaking
>> "mathematical English". For example "sequence" and
>> "series" are synonyms in English, so I'd guess that
>> they might be translated to ASL in the same way,
>
>> Or does someone have experience/suggestions on what
>> to do about this is general?
>>
>Talk to the interpreter about your concerns.

Golly, thanks, I hadn't thought of that.

Think about the problem for a second. She's not a
mathematician. I intend to explain things like the
fact that "series" and "sequence" are not synonyms
in math, "bound" and "limit" are not synonyms, etc.
How is she going to know the _correct_ translation
of such terms, or indeed whether there is such a thing,
since she's not a mathematician and presumably the people
she talks to about such matters are not mathematicians
either?



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David C. Ullrich
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