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