This article illustrates how to integrate mathematics with social issues. Social issues discussed in the newspaper provide a rich context for connecting mathematical activities to the real world. The sample activities focus on measurement concepts. (Contains 2 figures.)

Describes the technique of death visualization, used in teaching death and dying to university students and hospice workers. Visualization helps increase sensitivity to the states of mind of the terminally ill and their families. Group discussion is suggested as a follow-up to the experience. (JAC)

Argues that like other technological innovations, the rise of the digital information age is contributing to shape people's mode of cognition. Reviews the use of computers in teaching and learning in terms of their impact on our ability to process parallel data, access information in a non-linear order, and visualize information. (Author/LRW)

Presents a device for sketching the graph of the composite and inverse of single variable real-valued functions. Discusses some didactic methods of paths. (YP)

Discusses a concept-oriented calculus course as an alternative to a traditional skill-oriented calculus course. Two main ideas of conceptual calculus are visual conceptualization and receptive argumentation. Includes typical examination questions. (14 references) (MKR)

Discusses and examines two approaches to concept-based retrieval of hypermedia information that improve a user's ability to navigate large systems--term indexing with semantically coupled thesauri and semantic hyperindexing. Visualization of index structures is discussed, and an example, the Cube of Contents retrieval model for the "Active…

Discusses information visualization and cocitation analysis and demonstrates the use of an integrative approach to visualizing and tracking the development of competing scientific paradigms. Assumes that a cluster of highly cited and cocited scientific publications in a cocitation network represents the core of a predominant scientific paradigm.…

Latest digital technologies play an important role in teaching writing and preparing students to write in the 21st century. The different technologies used to teach writing such as using visual imagery and envisionment are described.

Based in bodily awareness, somatic education has many points of relationship with dance education. Body-Mind Centering[R] (BMC), with some of its roots in Laban Movement Analysis/Bartenieff Fundamentals (LMA/BF), has a particularly easy link to dance. When studying Body-Mind Centering, the theoretical components are often taught through dance…

For English-language learners, comprehension can be hindered by a lack of understanding of homonyms, homophones, and homographs, but the right instructional strategies can alleviate this problem. Following a discussion of issues such as the importance of being aware of a student's literacy skills in his or her home language and the need to…

Understanding vision is not a simple task. Nevertheless, a great deal is known about vision, more than about any of our other senses. The articles collected in this volume were chosen and organized with the intention of providing a survey of a number of different areas of vision research. Three major sections focus on the general categories of…

Describes Lincer's eight-part, innovative program for string instrument instruction used at the Julliard School of Music. The program includes breathing and relaxation studies, body-movement and muscle-action studies, feeling and self-awareness studies, and concentration and visualization studies. (AM)

Investigates the effects of language patterns and visualization found in Japanese primary classrooms on mathematics learning. Incorporates these elements into the mathematics instruction in a 1st grade classroom in Minnesota. Discusses the rationale behind the language patterns and visualization and reports positive results of the instruction.…

Considers complaints about the usability in the human-computer interaction aspect of information retrieval and discusses information visualization, the Online Library of Information Visualization Environments, hyperbolic information structure, subject searching, real-world applications, relational databases and hyperbolic trees, and the future of…

This article examines images of the future as visualized by space artists and design engineers. In excerpts from interviews, the artists describe their activities and their use of computer-aided design. The article concludes that visual thinking plays a large part in translating the dreams of visionaries into reality. (JDD)