http://www.cs.washington.edu/research/metip/metip.html (World Wide Web Directory, ~04/1995)
Mathematics Experiences Through Image Processing (METIP)
Project Director: Steven Tanimoto
A major educational problem in United States and some other countries is that students in grades K-12 lose interest in mathematics and science. 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:
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.
The METIP Project currently has a number of programs that allow students to explore mathematics with image processing:
These applications were developed primarily for 386/486/Pentium based PC's running Microsoft Windows. One application, the Pixel Calculator, is also available for the Apple Macintosh.
We are also looking for volunteer K-12 Mathematics teachers to participate in testing our experimental learning materials.
We are also exploring methods to track an individual student's overall progress. The Transcript project is currently designing a record-keeping framework which will facilitate storage of personal and academic information on a hard disk or floppy disk which is owned by the student.
Here is a list of all the people working on the METIP project.
In the future the METIP project will be working to integrate the use of the WWW into its activities. Some ideas are described in Prospects for the Direct Use of Distributed Image Databases in Educational Image Processing. Here is a raw outline.
Some resources from other WWW sites that may be of interest to METIP users are things like single-image stereograms. Here is some information from the UK on stereograms.
METIP is supported in part by the National Science Foundation under grant number MDR-9155709.