Re: Mathematical ASL?

David C. Ullrich <ullrich@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> 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?

Unless the student is going to converse with other mathematicians in
ASL, whatever terms she uses will work fine, as long as she stays
consistent.

You are like a painter worrying whether people will have the same
sensations in their brain given certain colors. Irrelevant. The
interesting thing is whether they have the same _associations_.

--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
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