Hi, I am blind, lost it at 22 years old. Since going blind I supported sighted and visually impaired students at Fe, and then I went on to teach sighted students mathematics. I also did stats at uni, though simple SD I did in my head. I used cork boards, elastic bands drawing pins to plot stuff on a board for blind students, and a Caretek (think that is right spelling) drawing board. It used French film and as you write on it, the line raises up after the stylus. If I can help any further, give me a shout!

I am a very tactile person I think the type of learner is important here I find multiple intelligence here matters. I am kinesthetics spacial. I found objects and toys very useful not real toys but like objects and models, I also found everything brailled out is good, ontime in class and with the teacher. Sometimes depending on the teacher it’s not possible of course. I found graph paper nice. I like one of those rubber pads and a cutter helpful. I also found I think they are the aph tools. Yes I told you I was kinesthetic. I also found dots and wikicstics helpful. I also found simply folding paper helpful. I used a brailler and strictly did it old fashioned. I am a stickler for doing it that way. I also found ripping it up like the shapes out of the paper and using that to play with it and the paper to be nice. Very hands on tinkery type of kid. I mean there’s advantages and disadvantages I was very present so was also a bit all over the place. Haha! But all the tactiles I loved. I think if my vi teacher knew I ripped out stuff they’d be very dismayed but doing that feeling stuff out feeling out the cut out and the whole and fitting it in and playing with it a bit helped. Like I said kinesthetic. It was fun for me. Haha! A bit weird but I am still very tactile. Very on the go these days.

Sadly I dont think some of them completely understood but okay.......

I am totally blind and when I did graphing in college, I completely did away with the tactile stuff. I would just write out a description of what the graph would look like. I would include the important parts like the slope and two points on the line. You should still teach the student how to read and create graphs using some form of tactile graphing just incase the teacher wants an actual graph.

Is your student low vision or fully blind?

I'm legally blind and had to drop math twice because I couldn't see the board and had to teach myself via YouTube.