This article is a first person account of my experiences of having sat in on the first five weeks of a foundation maths course to see how I would handle maths now that I am visually impaired. I am not a mathematician; I am a PhD student in the Sociology department studying access to materials including mathematical ones. I was fully sighted when I last did any proper maths and that was a GCSE ten years ago. I did do a small amount of statistics for my MA research methods course but that was so heavily adapted for me that I did not really engage with any actual maths or stats. Therefore I decided to take the foundation maths courses to see first hand some of the problems visually impaired students face.
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