Re: Mathematical ASL?

On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 10:13:30 -0500, David C. Ullrich
<ullrich@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


Does he not read the texts?

>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?
>
>
>
>************************
>
>David C. Ullrich

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