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>> Susan Osterhaus: And for right now we're going to talk
about Nemeth Code reference sheets.
Hopefully you have several publications regarding the
Nemeth Code, helping you learn the Nemeth Code.
And we talked about other ways to learn Nemeth Code,
and now we're going to talk about Nemeth reference sheets.
And some of you like to call them cheat sheets.
Sometimes we're looking for something relatively small.
And the first -- and just to kind of give you an overview,
we're going to be talking
about various different types of reference sheets.
And the first one we're going talk about is one made
by Gloria Buntrock called Common Nemeth Symbols,
and this was published
by the National Braille Association back
in October 1996.
It's only available in print, and she --
Gloria has given me permission to copy it exactly as it was
but no electronic version.
And it is available basically from me.
So if you need -- if you need this particular cheat sheet
or Common Nemeth Symbols, you're going to need to contact me.
It's also contained in my math packet
if you want to order that.
It's included amongst many other things.
But if you just needed a -- let's say this particular thing,
you could just write me and ask me to send you one.
Now, let's take a little bit closer look at this.
Again, it's called Common Nemeth Symbols, and what we're looking
at now are miscellaneous.
And it basically has in this case comma.
It's telling you it's the math comma,
and it's showing you the Braille, which is dot 6.
So, again, very, very minimal information.
And then we've got some other indicators, punctuation,
English letter, Greek letter, and so forth.
Let's come over here a little bit to your --
to the left, and we're going to see a few simpler signs.
So we've got the operation plus, minus, cross times,
dot times, and so forth.
And let's just -- let's just glance through that
and see what we've got.
So lots of different print symbols.
And then we have the Braille in SimBraille on the right for you.
So this is lots and lots of the Nemeth symbols
and just contained on one print page.
Now, there is more to this, and that --
but that it simply also gives you Braille to ASCII conversion
and to literally Braille and then Braille
to ASCII conversion again.
The only difference between the two Braille
to ASCII conversions is there's a little more --
talks about order with punctuation,
order with numbers and, then, over here contractions not used
and formatting and then the five-step modification.
And, again, as I said, Gloria said that I was allowed
to copy this if I copied it exactly as it is.
So that is why I have all of that information
in case you're thinking, well,
I just really want that first page.
She wants the whole thing --
for you to have the whole thing as it is.
So this is Gloria Buntrock's and, again, available for free
if you just write me and say that you would like one.
And that's Susan Osterhaus at TSBVI.EDU, and, again,
I'll be happy to send you that.
Or if you end up ordering my math packet for other reasons,
it would be contained in that as well.
So just in case you've already got my math package,
you've already got a copy of that; so you don't need to ask
for an additional one.
So that is one reference sheet or one cheat sheet
that you might be interested in having.
The next one, I want to go again back to my list.
The next one is called Nemeth Code Reference Sheet,
and it's available in print and Braille
from the American Printing House For the Blind.
Now, this is a Nemeth Code reference sheet,
but what I don't have listed here on this piece of paper is
that this is called for basic mathematics.
And, again, it's available in print and Braille,
and we're going to first look at the print version.
This is the print version,
and it is just going to be four pages.
You're looking at this top page which, again,
just has basic numbers, omissions, comparisons,
operations, not too technically high yet.
And fold. And then we've got some examples here
of subtraction, multiplication, and division.
And on the third page we get into -- let's see.
We've got money, geometry, and fractions.
Okay. And then the last page is components
of modified expressions.
That's that five-step indicators I was talking about on Gloria's.
And then it has some miscellaneous.
But pretty, pretty basic here.
And, again, these are available from APH in print,
and this is the size of the print version.
And then it's also available in Braille.
And I'm going to try to show you that it's not --
it's not very thick, okay?
And I don't know whether you're going to --
you probably can't see the Braille well enough but just
to prove that it is in Braille.
So, bottom line, whatever you saw in print, you now have
in the Braille version.
This might be something
that your students might be interested in because
of the fact that it is so small rather than carrying
around five volumes of the -- of the main Braille code.
They might be willing to carry around something like this.
But, again, this is for basic mathematics.
If you have a student that is above that basic mathematics,
they are going to need something more advanced.
However, if you have --
your particular student is just doing the basics,
look how skinny, very nice, something to have
as far as a reference sheet.
And, again, available from the American Printing House
For the Blind in print and Braille on federal quota money.