HIP^® Mathematics 1 offers students in grades five through eight lessons designed for exploration and directed inquiry. The program includes ten hands-on, teacher developed lessons for teaching mathematics. Students use image processing software developed for scientists, along with images such as x-rays, satellite photos, and digital elevation models to solve real-world problems. Using the tools of the imaging software NIH Image, students make measurements, collect and analyze data, and develop their own solutions as they work through problems, oftentimes ones that cannot be replicated in a normal classroom environment.

The mathematics concepts covered in the program reflect the NCTM curriculum standards in the areas of problem solving, communication, reasoning, connections, number relationships, number systems and theory, computation and estimation, patterns and functions, algebra, statistics, probability, geometry, and measurement.

HIP^® Mathematics 1 includes a CD-ROM of images and software plus a Guidebook containing 10 ready-to-use lessons. The Guidebook also contains technique tip sheets and additional images to explore. Each lesson runs approximately one class period and includes Student Instructions and Student Data Sheets. Extensive Teaching Notes include background information on the technology used to produce images and national standards met by the lesson.

• This Land is Your Land: Provides images of the United States to apply measurement and geometry skills.
  
• Eruption Plumes: Applying scale and measurement to analyze volcanic plumes.
  
• Going in Circles: Discovers the origin of pi.
  
• Circle of Squares: Geometry to discover the formula for the area of a circle.
  
• Public Access: Calculates the slope of handicap access ramps.
  
• Graph an Image: Uses a histogram to improve visualization of image data.
  
• Old Photo Restoration Co.: Mathematical image enhancement techniques to restore old photos.
  
• Secret Agent Decoder Ring: Uses equations to manipulate images, "hiding" them from mathematically challenged secret agents.
  
• Out of Breath: Uses ratios, decimals, and percent to evaluate a CT scan of a patient for signs of emphysema.
  
• Highs and Lows: Image processing tools help visualize and analyze surface topography data to assist in planning a skydiving jump site.

System Requirements:
Macintosh or Power Macintosh computer
Color monitor capable of displaying 256 colors
Hard drive and Macintosh compatible CD-ROM drive
2.5MB minimum available RAM
Macintosh System 7.0 or later

Grade Level: Grades 5 through 8

Pricing and Availability:
Single Teacher: $129

Mini Site License:* $449 -- includes 3 Guidebooks and 3 CD-ROMs (4-6 teachers)

Site License:* $699 -- includes 5 Guidebooks and 5 CD-ROMs (up to 10 teachers)

*includes the right to purchase additional CD-ROMs for $15 each)

HIP^® Mathematics 1 was developed by the Image Processing for Teaching Project at the University of Arizona Lunar and Planetory Laboratory with funding from the National Science Foundation.

For more information about HIP^® Mathematics 1, e-mail us or call us at 800/322-9884.

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