Database of Teaching Materials and Methods for Special Needs Education

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Target	Students who are totally blind or have weak eyesight Junior high and senior high school level
Disability category	visual impairment
Teaching units / Applicable scenes	arithmetic, mathematics
Specific purposes	To allow students to visualize graphs and to confirm the images that they have.
Considerations for disability characteristics	・String magnets are attached to a whiteboard to ensure that a small amount of touching will not disturb their shape, as would be the case with normal string. String magnets also allow students to easily change the shape of the graph. ・IC tape is placed onto a smooth whiteboard to enable students to recognize the positioning of the coordinate axis.
Expected effects and results	Students can draw a rough outline of the graph and share this with the other students and the instructor.
How to use	・Whiteboard: Should be small enough for students to touch all of it (A4 size). ・String magnets: Should be cut into lengths suited to drawing graphs. ・IC tape: Should be about 2mm wide and have a color which contrasts sharply with the whiteboard.
Related teaching materials and information	Supplier [String Magnets] Niroku Seisakusho Co., Ltd. (7F, Kobe Kaigan Bldg., 3, Kaigan-dori, Chuo-ku, Kobe-shi 650-0024 /TEL:078-392-2126/FAX:078-392-2106/URL:https://www.26magnet.co.jp/) [Whiteboard and IC Tape] Stationary shops, 100 yen shops, etc.
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Informant Special Needs Education School for the Visually Impaired, University of Tsukuba
Keywords Graph, create, visualization, share, mathematics, whiteboard, string magnets, IC tape, functions