METIP Overview

	METIP Overview

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A major educational problem in United States and some other countries is that students in grades K-12 lose interest in mathematics and science as they progress through school. Students often complain that mathematics is difficult and that they don't see much use for it past simple arithmetic. In response to these concerns, the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics has identified a number of features that the grades 5-8 curriculum should include in order to help motivate students to stay interested:

favor conceptual learning over rote operations;
emphasize practical uses of mathematics;
encourage discussions and group learning; and
encourage exploratory, open-ended learning.

The goal of the METIP project is to use digital image processing to help meet these objectives. In particular, we have developed a series of applications designed to allow students to manipulate digitized images of their choice. These materials are intended to be used in enrichment activities rather than part of a standard classroom curriculum. Teachers can play various roles with these activities; for example, they can catalyze student learning by leading discussions of the concepts students have explored on the computer.

More recently the METIP goals have been adjusted to accommodate undergraduate students as well as K-12 students. A new software package has been developed and we expect to release it in the Autumn of 2010.

METIP was supported in part by the National Science Foundation under grant number MDR-9155709. Additional software development was supported in part by NSF under grant 0537322.

Current and past people who have worked on the METIP project are documented here .

Last modified: Friday, 2 April 2010.