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Now on CD:
THE MATHEMATICS AND SCIENCE OF FRACTALS
CD includes:
Now on CD:
THE MATHEMATICS AND SCIENCE OF FRACTALS
CD includes:
 | Modules: Each Module is a self-contained unit on one topic that includes | |
| an Instructor's Guide and links to its supporting Lecture Notes, Classroom Discovery Experiments, Discovery Applets, Discovery Spreadsheets, Homework Assignments, PowerPoint Slides, reference material in Fractals and Chaos Simplified for the Life Sciences, and Assessment Tools. | ||
| Lecture Notes: Detailed notes of the classroom lectures. | |
| Classroom Discovery Experiments: Instructions, aims, and meanings of | |
| hands-on activities to be performed by groups of students in class. These include instructional video clips of the experiments. | ||
| Discovery Applets: Instructions and results for self-discovery activities | |
| implemented in Java applets. | ||
| Discovery Spreadsheets: Instructions and results for self-discovery activities | |
| implemented in Excel spreadsheets. | ||
| Homework Assignments: Homework problems with worked solutions for the | |
| instructor. | ||
| PowerPoint Slides: Illustrative slides for the instructor to show in class. | |
| Book: Fractals and Chaos Simplified for the Life Sciences Hypertext | |
| version of the previous print textbook. |
Overview
These materials emphasize WHAT mathematics is, HOW mathematicians do
mathematics, and how mathematics is used in SCIENCE.
Different teaching and learning styles including:
LECTURE NOTES: HTML, PowerPoint slides, hypertext textbook, videotapes.
HANDS-ON GROUP CLASSROOM ACTIVITIES: HTML, video clips.
INDIVIDUAL SELF-DISCOVERY EXERCISES: Java applets, Excel spreadsheets.
ASSESSMENT TOOLS: homework assignments, journal questions, concept maps,
group interviews.
Content.
Fractals are used to illustrate generalization, isomorphism, iteration, invariants,
arithmetic series, geometric series, limits, graphs, linear scales, logarithmic scales,
logarithms, statistics, and dimension.
The scientific applications are developed along with the mathematics, so that
there are lessons on the heart, eye, ear, and brain.
These electronic materials are intended to supplement the classroom experience,
rather than replace it entirely on the Internet.
These materials can be used for:
A one semester Liberal Arts undergraduate mathematics course: To fullfill a
mathematics requirement for non-science majors.
Modules for enrichment materials in other undergraduate mathematics courses:
Liberal Arts Mathematics, College Algebra, Calculus, or a course on Scientific
Models and Simulations.
These materials emphasize WHAT mathematics is, HOW mathematicians do
mathematics, and how mathematics is used in SCIENCE.
Different teaching and learning styles including:
LECTURE NOTES: HTML, PowerPoint slides, hypertext textbook, videotapes.
HANDS-ON GROUP CLASSROOM ACTIVITIES: HTML, video clips.
INDIVIDUAL SELF-DISCOVERY EXERCISES: Java applets, Excel spreadsheets.
ASSESSMENT TOOLS: homework assignments, journal questions, concept maps,
group interviews.
Content.
Fractals are used to illustrate generalization, isomorphism, iteration, invariants,
arithmetic series, geometric series, limits, graphs, linear scales, logarithmic scales,
logarithms, statistics, and dimension.
The scientific applications are developed along with the mathematics, so that
there are lessons on the heart, eye, ear, and brain.
These electronic materials are intended to supplement the classroom experience,
rather than replace it entirely on the Internet.
These materials can be used for:
A one semester Liberal Arts undergraduate mathematics course: To fullfill a
mathematics requirement for non-science majors.
Modules for enrichment materials in other undergraduate mathematics courses:
Liberal Arts Mathematics, College Algebra, Calculus, or a course on Scientific
Models and Simulations.
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