Mathematics Terms in American and Japanese Sign Languages

January 3 - 9, 2011 faculty and students in grades 11-12 at Rochester School for the Deaf (RSD), in Rochester, NY, hosted faculty and students from Tokyo Metropolitan Chuo School for the Deaf in Tokyo, Japan. RSD and Tokyo Metro are participating in the initial phase of project, Secondary Educational Enrichment for Deaf Students -- International: Sowing the Seeds of Cross-Cultural Understanding (SEEDS-International). February 21-25, RSD students will travel to Japan for the second phase of this project.

In this video, RSD Middle School students in Mrs. Heather Mooney's Math Class and Tokyo Metro High School students are working together to demonstrate various terms used in mathematics. Each term is fingerspelled and then signed in American and Japanese Sign Languages.

The U.S.-Japan Foundation, based in New York City, award of over $72,000 to the National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID), a college of Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), supports these pilot phases of the SEEDS-International project for high school students who are deaf from Japan and the United States. A goal of SEEDS - International is to enhance and enrich deaf high school students' understanding of the Deaf and hearing cultures of each country.

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[Frank A. Kruppenbacher]

日本酒輪が大好きです

[JCarolR]

first time seeing JSL... I see their spelling represents the furigana... oh... and i thought the signs for homework and strict were funny... homework is iconic and i think i get why strict looks that way =) thanks so much for sharing, I learned a lot

[Laurie Laughlin]

WOW that was WONDERFUL!!! I love it...thank you for sharing.

[karonmadison]

I love it, I'm american sign language. I learn japenesse sign language from my three friends. I'm really interested in.

[Meliton Bustinza]

Muito bom

[yap keng]

awesome but i deaf guy in singapore but i very little sign languages >.<

[tywynnjr]

wow interesting JSL that i wanted to learn their jsl for me :S

[jonathan kakez]

i love your deaf the world

[priestvanglak]

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[Dave Knight]

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[Carlos Alexandre]

escola oi