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<span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Book", "Avenir Next Condensed", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 32, 96);">Policy Associate – Accessible IT Coordinator</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Book", "Avenir Next Condensed", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 32, 96);">Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges</span></p>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> Monica Olsson <molsson@sbctc.edu><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, June 6, 2025 2:19 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Access Technology Higher Education Network <athen-list@u.washington.edu><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Noaki Inaba Math Puzzles</font>
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All,</div>
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A unique kind of Math puzzle was shared with me from faculty as an example of a fun assignment she likes to assign students:
<b><a href="http://All, A unique kind of Math puzzle was shared with me from a Math faculty as an example of a fun assignment she likes to assign students: The idea is to look at the numbers and design of the connected circles to identify a pattern and then fill in each blank circle with the correct number." title="All, A unique kind of Math puzzle was shared with me from a Math faculty as an example of a fun assignment she likes to assign students: The idea is to look at the numbers and design of the connected circles to identify a pattern and then fill in each blank circle with the correct number.">Naoki
Inaba Puzzles</a></b>.</div>
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The idea is to look at the numbers and design of the connected circles to find a pattern and then fill in each blank circle with the correct number. It reminds me of Sudoku.</div>
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We started chatted about how to make these accessible to AT users, and I must admit that I was stumped. I don't think alt text will provide an equivalent experience.</div>
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Some thoughts I had were - Would Desmos be helpful here at all to "listen" to patterns? I do not know enough about Desmos though, so I did not go down that route with the faculty. I asked her to explain the essential learning outcome of the assignment to me
and asked if an alternate assignment could be offered. She was open to this idea, but also commented, "I don't want to remove all my fun assignments from the class."</div>
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What would you advise?</div>
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Thanks!</div>
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<span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book","Avenir Next Condensed",sans-serif; font-size:12pt; color:rgb(0,32,96)">Policy Associate – Accessible IT Coordinator</span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; color:rgb(36,36,36)"><b><i>Access by everyone regardless of disability is an essential aspect.</i></b></span></p>
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