USING COMPUTERS TO VISUALIZE MATHEMATICAL CONCEPTS

这个子项目是许多研究子项目中的一个 由NIH/NCRR资助的中心赠款提供的资源。子项目和 研究者（PI）可能从另一个NIH来源获得了主要资金， 因此可以在其他CRISP条目中表示。所列机构为 研究中心，而研究中心不一定是研究者所在的机构。 我们利用计算机在RBVI资源，让高中学生深入了解数学思想。 计算机图形学为学生提供了可视化和操纵数学对象的独特方法（例如，图形和几何对象）。 计算机图形学也为探索数学思想提供了极好的动力。 MidasPlus和Chimera的实时操作设施为年轻学生学习坐标变换的矩阵表示提供了激励。 特别是有一个学生，他在这种学习方法上表现出色，以至于在过去的三个夏天里，他每年都被RBVI资源公司雇用，作为一名做高级计算机编程的学生。

This subproject is one of many research subprojects utilizing the resources provided by a Center grant funded by NIH/NCRR. The subproject and investigator (PI) may have received primary funding from another NIH source, and thus could be represented in other CRISP entries. The institution listed is for the Center, which is not necessarily the institution for the investigator. We utilize computers at the RBVI Resource to give high school students insights into mathematical ideas. Computer graphics provide students unique ways to visualize and manipulate mathematical objects (e.g., graphs and geometric objects). Computer graphics also presents wonderful motivation for exploring mathematical ideas. The real-time manipulation facilities of MidasPlus and Chimera offers incentives to young students to study matrix representations of coordinate transformations. One student, in particular, has excelled at this method of learning to the point that he has now been employed by the RBVI Resource each of the past three summers as a student doing advanced computer programming.