<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">SignWriting List<div class="">March 19, 2015</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Hi Ingvild!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thank you for this message about teaching Deaf children mathematics in Norway…</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Your point below, about the fact that both sign language and math are highly space dependent is very interesting…So that is a place for SignWriting, as you say…</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I searched the Norwegian SignPuddle ( <a href="http://www.signbank.org/signpuddle2.0/index.php?ui=3&sgn=69" class="">http://www.signbank.org/signpuddle2.0/index.php?ui=3&sgn=69</a> ) for “<font face="Calibri" class="">matematikk” and see a good number of signs related to mathematics -</font></div><div class=""><font face="Calibri" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><img height="402" width="744" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" apple-inline="yes" id="701FF87F-69FF-42FF-BCFC-C66D21785549" src="cid:926578E7-19F8-41EC-9707-330DD52C4488" class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">------------</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Mar 19, 2015, at 1:15 AM, Ingvild Roald <<a href="mailto:iroald@HOTMAIL.COM" class="">iroald@HOTMAIL.COM</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">EXCERPT from longer message...</span></div></blockquote><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">The place to use signwriting in math would be in formulating problems and in explaining concepts. As sign language and math both are highly space dependent, and sign writing can represent this space relationships, this is where sign writing would be excelent for math teaching.</span><br style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><br style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">In the Norwegian sign puddle, which is still very much of a mess, I try to tag signs by concepts. You will find those I have cleansed so far that are related to math taggeg as #matematikk</span><br style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><br style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">Ingvild (holding a higher degree in physics and a doctorate in deaf education)<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><br style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>________________________________________________
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