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- 3-D Drawing and Geometry - Cathi Sanders
A Math Forum Summer 1998 Institute project that uses examples of paintings, architecture, etc. to analyze different types of 3-D drawings, and teaches students how to create them. Careers in 3-D drawing that use these techniques, from architecture to
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- Graphing and the Computer - James Francis Langan - Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute
This unit consists of two computer programs. The first teaches X,Y plotting; the second is a demonstration of coordinate transformations, matrices, vector equations of lines and perspective and will draw a picture of any geometric solid whose coordinates
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- Illusions of Depth (Elementary Art Lessons, Arts Wire) - Michael Delahunt
A 3rd grade lesson plan on "Seeing Near and Far": students learn how overlapping and size differences show perspective, and that on a level surface, the lowest part of a near subject is lower in a picture than the lowest part of a farther subject, recognizing
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- Life by the Numbers - WQED Pittsburgh
Materials from the Public Broadcasting System seven-part miniseries Life by the Numbers, hosted and narrated by actor Danny Glover. Each unit has four parts: Start Here, Meet the Experts, About the Show, and Math Stuff, with QuickTime videos and Shockwave
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- Perspective Drawing - Jan Garner
An examination of geometry in art: exercises in drawing, pictures and paintings in perspective on the Web (Albrecht Dürer, the Ancient City of Athens exhibit).
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- Ptolemy's Ptools - ThinkQuest 1998
Easy-to-understand math projects for students to do by themselves or with adult direction. Triangle investigations of the perspectives of the 3D video games Star Fleet Academy, Quake II, and Sub Culture Submarine Adventure. "Quadrant projects" involve
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- Rice University School Mathematics Project (RUSMP) - Wells, Papakonstantinou; Rice University Center for Education
A project established to serve as a bridge between the Rice University mathematics research community and Houston area mathematics teachers. It sponsors a variety of professional development workshops, fosters reform efforts, encourages the effective
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- Shaping a Personal Environment - Robert F. Evans - Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute
Students design and organize personal space by completing necessary plans and elevations, perspective, and detail drawings of a given or proposed space
while using imagination to tie it to career and life goals. Each unit during the
year is designed
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- THE TITANIC: What Can Numbers Tell Us About Her Fatal Voyage? - Todd Atkins, Barbara McManus; Louisiana State University
What do you know about the Titanic, its passengers, and its crew? This Webquest, designed for students who have some familiarity with the use of spreadsheets for creating tables and graphs and with the use of databases for gathering information, explores
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- Viewpoints - Dr. Annalisa Crannell, Franklin & Marshall College; and Marc Frantz, Indiana University - Bloomington
VIEWPOINTS is a series of workshops for college and high school instructors on the connections between mathematics and art, and the power of those connections to add interest and excitement to the presentation of either subject. Lessons available in PDF
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