CSE 590D (Winter 1996): Mathematics Experiences Through Image Processing

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This graduate seminar explores a variety of topics related to the use of computers in education. A tentative agenda includes the following: 1. hands-on exploration of image transformations in the Pentium lab; 2. introductory sessions with the Geometer's Sketchpad (a commercially successful use of graphics in supporting K-12 learning of mathematics); 3. discussion of interface and curriculum design issues relating to cooperative manipulation of digital images. 4. an evaluation of mass-market "educational software" for mathematics.

The Completed Student Projects

Each of these projects is a modest demonstration of an idea arising in image processing or mathematics. The projects involve a demonstration using the XFORM programming environment (developed by the project on Mathematics Experiences Through Image Processing). A typical student contributor was a graduate student in Computer Science and Engineering who spent about 5 hours experimenting with XFORM and producing her or his project.


Here is a link to the documentation on XFORM.
If you create any interesting activities that connect naturally to this web, please send me the URL so that I can include a link from the web to your contribution. (send it to Steve Tanimoto at the email address tanimoto@cs.washington.edu).
Meetings are held Tuesdays, 2:30-3:20 PM in Sieg 224.
SLN: 2436.
Credits and expectations: Each participating student receives one credit. Students are expected to participate in each discussion and laboratory activity. Several readings are assigned and each student makes a short presentation during the quarter.

First reading: The synopsis, table of contents, and preface of Beyond Photography -- The Digital Darkroom by Gerard Holzmann.



(Last Update: 5 March 1996) tanimoto@cs.washington.edu