Reading Math — I: Visualization as Virtual Interpreter

This week’s podcast in the As We May Teach… series is now online:

Reading Math — I: Visualization as Virtual Interpreter

This podcast focuses on the use of visualization tools as a way to provide everyone access to mathematics as a language they can “read” and apply, even if they have not taken advanced courses in the subject.

The resources for this podcast are listed below. If you have examples of uses of visualization tools in math that you would like to share, by all means please do so via the comments.

Reading Math — I: Visualization as Virtual Interpreter

Math Literacy and Technology

National Science Foundation — Math: What’s the Problem? Crowe, D. and Zand H. Computers and undergraduate mathematics I: setting the scene. Computers & Education 35 (2000) Crowe, D. and Zand H. Computers and undergraduate mathematics 2: on the desktop. Computers & Education 37 (2001)

Substitution to Augmentation — Interactive Demo

Wolfram Mathematica Player Wolfram Demonstrations Project Wolfram Demonstrations Project — Relationship of Sine and Cosine to the Unit Circle, by Noel Patson

Augmentation to Modification — Interactive Exploration

MacRumors: Guides — Grapher Y. Barois — Grapher How-To Google Translate Apple Discussions — Forum: Using Mac OS X Leopard

Modification to Redefinition — Data Analysis and Exploration

National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC) — Sunspot Numbers

Sustaining Redefinition — Pure and Applied Mathematical Exploration

Wolfram Demonstrations Project — Riemann Sums: A Simple Illustration, by Phil Ramsden Wolfram Demonstrations Project — Rational Harmonics, by Stephen Wolfram