USING COMPUTERS TO VISUALIZE MATHEMATICAL CONCEPTS

本子项目是利用由NIH/NCRR资助的中心赠款提供的资源的众多研究子项目之一。子项目和研究者（PI）可能已经从另一个NIH来源获得了主要资金，因此可以在其他CRISP条目中表示。列出的机构是中心的，不一定是研究者的机构。我们利用RBVI资源的计算机来让高中生了解数学思想。计算机图形学为学生提供了可视化和操作数学对象（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很好的动力。MidasPlus和Chimera的实时操作功能为年轻学生学习坐标变换的矩阵表示提供了激励。有一个学生尤其擅长这种学习方法，在过去的三个暑假里，他每年都被RBVI资源聘用，作为一名学习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.