You have very right to be pissed off — that's just unacceptable and stupid!
I can not imagine learning geometry without using visual or tactile or sculptural models. Yes, the souper mathematicians can ponder n-dimensional space whether sighted or blind, but to cut you off from that bedrock stuff is just. Eeeek! That's the steam coming out of my ears!
(Was your undergrad at MIT? I ask because I spent five years closely working with a totally blind woman who earned her BS in Math at MIT — in 1975 (6?))
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I can not imagine learning geometry without using visual or tactile or sculptural models. Yes, the souper mathematicians can ponder n-dimensional space whether sighted or blind, but to cut you off from that bedrock stuff is just. Eeeek! That's the steam coming out of my ears!
(Was your undergrad at MIT? I ask because I spent five years closely working with a totally blind woman who earned her BS in Math at MIT — in 1975 (6?))