USING COMPUTERS TO VISUALIZE MATHEMATICAL CONCEPTS

这个子项目是许多研究子项目中利用 资源由NIH/NCRR资助的中心拨款提供。子项目和 调查员(PI)可能从NIH的另一个来源获得了主要资金， 并因此可以在其他清晰的条目中表示。列出的机构是 该中心不一定是调查人员的机构。 我们利用RBVI资源中心的计算机，让高中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作数学对象(例如，图形和几何对象)的独特方法。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提供了学习坐标变换的矩阵表示法的动机。有一名学生尤其擅长这种学习方法，以至于在过去的三个暑假里，他每年都受雇于RBVI资源中心，学习高级计算机编程。

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.