Electronic Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics

New Orleans, Louisiana, October 28-31, 2004

Paper S070

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Generating and Modeling Data From Real-World Experiments

Robert E. Kowalczyk


Mathematics Department
University of Massachusetts of Dartmouth
285 Old Westport Road
N. Dartmouth, MA 02747-2300


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Adam O. Hausknecht


Mathematics Department
University of Massachusetts of Dartmouth
285 Old Westport Road
N. Dartmouth, MA 02747-2300


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ABSTRACT

We will demonstrate prototype software (Mac OS X, Linux Windows) that has the capability of importing a digital picture (or frames of a video clip) of some physical phenomenon and using it to generate a set of data for modeling purposes. Our goal is to make it easier for teachers to do real applied mathematics in the classroom and to make mathematics more enjoyable for the first- and second-year mathematics students.

Keyword(s): modeling, software, applications