Mathematics Terms in American and Japanese Sign Languages

January 3 9, 2011 faculty and students in grades 1112 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 CrossCultural Understanding (SEEDSInternational). February 2125, 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 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 S