Digital Images + Interactive Software = Enjoyable, Real Mathematics Modeling
Andy Ventress · Mathematics Teacher Learning and Teaching PK-12 · 2008
Mathematical modeling begins with a phenomenon, and what better way to represent a real-world phenomenon than with a digital camera? When a student records an image with a digital camera rather than doing an exercise from a textbook, that student becomes the owner of his own mathematical activity. Because the problem is now the student's, he or she has considerably more motivation to learn the mathematics.