Math workshop for blinds

 summer 2017

In following of the activities of the Isfahan Mathematics House for the education of the blind, in the summer of 2017, the math training workshop was held each week on Sundays during 10 sessions in 2017, At the first hour, suitable games were presented to the students, after a short break the Course content was reviewed with the tools designed for the first grade book.

The games presented in this workshop are as follows:

– Puzzle 1-100: Make a puzzle 1-100, Make puzzle with question card, Find Numbers, Sum

– Solar game (Statistics)

– Triangle of numbers

At first, games such as the triangle of numbers were difficult for students, but during several sessions of the game, they argued well and quickly find the answer.

They Interested in games and enjoyed taking part in the workshops.

Mathematics Education Project For Blinds; 2016-2017

Empowering Visually Impaired People by Enhancing Their Mathematics
The cooperation of Isfahan Mathematics House, Community of the Light wave(Moje Noor) and
Heeva Foundation
Isfahan Mathematics House and Community of the Light wave(Moje Noor) Attending in IBRIDGE seminar
(8-11 December 2016), Barcelona-Spain

Mathemaics is the basis of many science and blinds have to know mathematics in order to work in most jobs. Blind students and pupils are faced with a shortage of math teacher and they have no optimized books and their educational materials are not enough.

To empower this students to learn math, should: 

• Optimize this book for them.
• Provide booklet for optimized books.
• Provide appropriate teaching aid tools for them.
• Organize training base equipped with a Braille printer, optimized books, teaching aid tools and mathematics teacher.
• Mathematics workshops Should be held  to enhance the level of student’s math.

From June 2016, Isfahan Mathematics House and Community of the Light wave (Moje Noor) In collaboration with the Heeva Foundation, Has started a project to teach math to blinds. This group decided to start working from first grade of elementary school In order to optimize the mathematical concepts for the blinds, and focused on First-grade book of elementary school, for this purpose weekly meetings were held In the presence of a representative of the Hiva company, a representative of teachers of the “Shahid Samani” school and two representatives of the Isfahan Mathematics House and reviewed First-grade book page by page.

To achieve the aims of meetings, activities include:

• Design mathematics teaching aid tools
• Design and writing teacher’s guide for first grade math book
• Set up mathematics workshop

From Oct. 2016, we started teaching first grade students of Shahid Samani school, and a teacher of mathematics house went to school to help teachers with the approval of the school’s teacher and principal. After a month with the suggestion of Mrs. Hani this students come to Mathematics House voluntarily on Wednesdays from 15 to 17 in order to review the content of mathematics.

We hope other books, such as primary schools, high schools and university books also be optimized. We have decided to start this project in large cities and then expand in small cities. We hope this project also be ready for Persian-speaking countries and the Persian language blinds living in other countries. In the next step,we want to expand the project so that the blind can learn math by using an ordinary computer. Blinds become more independent by understanding and learning math; Can solve their problems; Because they know math; Can choose their favorite field and of course, they will produce more jobs. This project is presented at a conference in Spain and has been strongly welcomed by the audience.

The first session of the researcher hands

The first session of the researcher hands was hold at the Isfahan mojenoor Association of Isfahan Mathematics House on 11th March 2018 With the presence of  Dr. Yavari and seven accepted person.

In this session, the accuracy of the touch and the typing speed of accepted persons was evaluated. And they were advised to increase their accuracy and speed of typing and their information on breast cancer.

The next session of this course will be held in 2018.

Presence of Isfahan Mojenoor Society at National Conference of Sighted Society, Blind Citizen

13rd and 14th of December, 2016, Kashan University.

On the 13rd and 14th of December, 2016, a conference named the second conference of the Sighted Society and the Blind Citizen was held at the University of Kashan.

At this conference In addition to about a hundred blind people, most of whom were officials of the country’s associations, a number of students from Kashan University and officials from Kashan also participated. In the morning of the first day, the conference started with the speech of the head of the university of Kashan and then Mrs. Nikkhah head of the Association of the Blind of Kashan and Mr. Nahvinezhad Deputy Minister of Welfare of the Republic spoke. In the afternoon of this day, accepted papers were presented. The Mojenoor Society also presented an article titled “Mathematics Education Project for the Blinds in Iran”, which was Welcomed by the listeners. In this conference, the Mojenoor Society organized an exhibition for the preview the first book of primary school and also selling the community books, a large number of participants visited this exhibition And bought the books they needed, and showed interest in using the first book of primary school in their city schools. On the morning of the second day, Mr. Moeini talked about the Blind Network and Mrs. Nikkhah on the Blind Society and discussed with the community’s authorities. The closing ceremony was held in the afternoon. In this ceremony, one of the officials the Kashan Department of Welfare delivered a speech. And finally, the resolution of the conference was read.