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Tips and Strategies to Make Geometry Accessible

Tips and strategies to make geometry accessible to students who are blind or visually impaired

Students with visual impairments may face challenges when working on the Mathematics standards in the Common Core State Standards (CCSS).  As a response to this, Perkins School for the Blind convened a panel of experts to identify specific standards that would be a potential challenge to students who are blind or visually impaired, and then proposed ideas for materials, foundational skills, tips and strategies, and lesson ideas to help to address these challenges.

This post is part of a series about different parts of the Mathematical standards.

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What is a student likely to be working on in this area:

 

What are the particular challenges for a student who have a visual impairment?  

Geometry relies heavily on the visual representation of shapes and their relationship in space.  Student will need tactile drawings and physical representations to support their studies.  
 

Foundational Skills

 

Materials

 

Tips and Strategies

 

Lesson Ideas

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By Susan LoFranco

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