Re: Mathematical ASL?

David C. Ullrich wrote:

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.



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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?



Talk to the student as well. Surely, this is not the first math class he has taken.


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Stephen J. Herschkorn                        sjherschko@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Math Tutor in Central New Jersey and Manhattan

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