Visualizing Mathematics
Course Introduction
Visualization has been at the heart of how people learn and understand mathematics for over 2000 years.
This course is intended to help visual learners, or anyone who has struggled with math in the past, to become reacquainted with math using visual represenations of mathematical concepts, and by relating those concepts to real life situations. The course starts with a series of four videos; Similarity, The Theorem of Pythagoras, The Story of Pi and The Tunnel of Samos, that help students see the patterns and relationships that underlie all of modern mathematics. The videos provide prerequisite mathematical knowledge in a way that is understandable and accessible to any student regardless of math background or previous results in mathematics.
Students then work from this foundation to develop a deeper understanding of a range of mathematical topics using interactive math tutorials that allow the student to solve math problems visually and interactively.
In the second half of the course students learn how graphs and charts are used visualize the information found in data. Using visualization to see and understand the patterns found in data ties back into the math concepts presented earlier.
To see an example of what students will learn in this course view these narrated Tutorials -
Data Analysis: Seeing the information in the Numbers
Part One - Part Two - Part Three - Part Fsour
Resources From the Tutorials
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