Tuesday, January  18, 2005
First Class!

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• Discussion of course details:
  
• handout course description
  
• This was an extensive disucssion of the many course features:
  
• In class activities.
• Homework
• Reading
• Portfolios
• Projects
• The Tool kit
  
• personal info sheet.
  
• Flatland as social commentary/satire.
  
• What is Visual Mathematics?
• Mathematics that studies topics related to visual experience. [Geometry, Topology, Motion]
  
• Visualization of mathematics that is not inherently visual. [Visualizing Counting]
• Classification:  Triangles, circles: congruence and  similarity.  What common features are shared by circles and triangles?... They divide the plane into two sectors: "inside and outside". Not in the same class as the symbol..  8.