[UEB Maths] blank space - "place holder"

[Antonnette Botha]

27 August 2007

Hello Maths Working Group Members

Here in South Africa we plan to implement UEB for the three lower grades in 
our schools from January 2008.  We have a training session for teachers in 
September.  We are doing a book on numeracy for beginners and have a 
question.

What do we do for a blank space ( "place holder") where something is to be 
filled in, as in:

3 + 2 =
2 +   = 5

I recall that earlier this year there was some correspondence in your group 
and that the "visible space" (dots 346) was mentioned, but I am not sure 
what was agreed upon, and the transcribers want a quick reply from me.  Can 
you help?

Thanks
Antonnette

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Janet Reynolds" <JReynolds at rnzfb.org.nz>
To: "UEB Maths" <uebmaths at nbp.org>
Sent: Sunday, August 26, 2007 2:22 AM
Subject: RE: [UEB Maths] Superscript Roman numbers


Our hands are a bit tied here because UEB avoids having special rules for 
roman numbers. If the definition of an item was changed to include letters 
preceded by the capital word indicator it would cover this example, but then 
you'd have complications around capitalised variables in the superscript 
position, for example e to the XY.
Janet

-----Original Message-----
From: uebmaths-bounces at nbp.org [mailto:uebmaths-bounces at nbp.org] On Behalf 
Of Phippen, Stephen
Sent: Monday, 20 August 2007 11:28 p.m.
To: UEB Maths
Subject: RE: [UEB Maths] Superscript Roman numbers

Hello All

I am just getting round to try to draft the section on chemistry for the
UEB technical guidelines, and I wonder if someone can confirm (or
otherwise) that if you use a capital word indicator at the beginning of
a supercript that doesn't count as a grouping indicator, and you would
need the normal braille grouping signs as well. I am thinking of
expressions like Fe superscript III, where it is tempting not to put in
braille grouping signs.

Thanks,
Stephen


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