USING COMPUTERS TO VISUALIZE MATHEMATICAL CONCEPTS

这个子项目是利用资源的许多研究子项目之一。 由NIH/NCRR资助的中心拨款提供。对子项目的主要支持 子项目的首席调查员可能是由其他来源提供的， 包括美国国立卫生研究院的其他来源。为子项目列出的总成本可能 表示该子项目使用的中心基础设施的估计数量， 不是由NCRR赠款提供给次级项目或次级项目工作人员的直接资金。 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。有一位学生尤其擅长这种学习方法，以至于他作为高级计算机编程专业的学生，每年三个暑假都受雇于RBVI资源。

This subproject is one of many research subprojects utilizing the resources provided by a Center grant funded by NIH/NCRR. Primary support for the subproject and the subproject's principal investigator may have been provided by other sources, including other NIH sources. The Total Cost listed for the subproject likely represents the estimated amount of Center infrastructure utilized by the subproject, not direct funding provided by the NCRR grant to the subproject or subproject staff. 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 was employed by the RBVI Resource each of three summers as a student doing advanced computer programming.