This page contains (at the end) web-based material concerning mathematics and computer education. It begins with information about a video resource that I would like to utilize to expand the existing items (see Math Education Pointers, Odd ... Solids, Odd ... Numbers below).

Hypermedia Laboratory: Personnel, Location

The Hypermedia Laboratory is an on campus resource. It is under the direction of Prof. Fabian Wagmister, UCLA School of Theater Film and Television.

Joel 825-8698 joel@hypermedia.ucla.edu
Jeff Burke 45358 jburke@hypermedia.ucla.edu
Melnitz (not East Melnitz) 1469A; Mezzanine Level, North East corner of Melnitz, Laboratory TV Studio below it.

Descriptive Email Message

Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 ... From: "Joel Schonbrunn" joel@hypermedia.ucla.edu ... Subject: Project possibilities ...

Some of the projects are posted for viewing on the Hypermedia Studio Intranet. Please take a look and let us know what you think. I have also created a listserv at the hypermedia studio to simplify the communications between our two groups. The Listserv address is cs190@hypermedia.ucla.edu and the URL for the webpage is:

http://hypermedia.ucla.edu/intranet/cs190.htm

Our intranet is a fairly organic beast, and changes structure as our project matures, so I might change the URL to better locate the material. Please post any questions about the projects to the listserv, so that everyone can share in your discussions. I look forward to working with all of you!

-Joel (Joel Schonbrunn, 310-825-8698, Technical Director: http://Hypermedia.ucla.edu, Hypermedia Studio at UCLA, joel@hypermedia.ucla.edu; Text page: http://t4e2000.ucla.edu/pagejoel.htm; Reply to: cs190@hypermedia.ucla.edu)

Recommended Source

A book I asked the Hypermedia personnel to evaluate for its potential for development visually for tv is:

Enzensberger, Hans Magnus, The Number Devil: A Mathematical Adventure (Translated by Michael Henry Heim, Illustrated by Rotraut Susanne Berner) NY: Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company, 1998.

Potential Funding UC-Program to Foster Industry-University Cooperation

Subject: UC DIGITAL MEDIA INNOVATION GRANT PROGRAM $ ... Date: 16 Sep 1998 ... (DiMI)
Attention: Faculty conducting research in Digital Media (e.g. Technologies, Applications, Knowledge Based Systems, Database and Media Content Development).
...
President Atkinson's Industry-University Cooperative Research Program is accepting proposals for the Digital Media Innovation Program (DiMI). DiMI is a University/Industry matching grant program that, in partnership with California industry, supports early stage, pre-production research, ranging from basic to proof- of-concept in digital media. DiMI fosters both advances in the underlying techn ologies of digital multimedia and in those scientific, technical, and content-r elated fields that will drive new digital media applications. All proposals must be accompanied by a binding letter of intent from a private sponsor. Private Sponsors pay half the project costs, but may be trea ted as if they have paid the full cost of the project when it comes time to neg otiate for intelle ctual property rights. Full Proposals with binding letters of intent from Industry partners ...

http://uc-industry.berkeley.edu/

DiMI, part of President Atkinson's Initiative for Industry-University Cooperative Research, has $1.5 million in UC funds available in fiscal year 19 98-99 to fund approximately 15 to 25 proposals. Awards are expected to range f rom $50,000 to $250,000 (in DiMI funds) for one- to two-year periods. In the first round, approved proposals ranged from $35,387 to 37,639 in DiMI funding, and $2,895,9 86 in total funding (including private sponsors contributions) for one or two y ear periods. Awards must be matched at least $1:$1 by private sponsors.

Any University of California researcher with principal investigator s tatus may submit a proposal. An Executive Committee composed of representative s from each UC campus will make final funding decisions based on evaluations of peer reviewers.

Math Education Pointers

Dorene Lau created an animated/color proof of Pythagoras' Theorem is (about two-thirds down the page) at:

http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~klinger/dorene/math1.htm

Also see:

http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~klinger/dorene/title.htm

Debbie Ka puzzle material formerly at:

http://www.seas.ucla.edu/~debora

can be added to this web site. (Student assistance is needed.)

Items Available From This Site

Birds on a Wire
Baseball Arithmetic
Strange Cancellation
Half of Eleven
Nine Dots Four Lines
Nine Apples Four Baskets
Circular Pizza Pie Eight Equal Pieces
Two Siblings
Sequence Completion

Here the last refers to the sequence involving 16 to different number bases, the references:

http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~klinger/sxtn.html

http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~klinger/sixteen.html

This material could be the basis of work to assist a teacher doing a K-12 unit on computer-math. A related problem statement is:

What's next in this sequence?

10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 20, 22, 24, __?

(Merwyn Sommer contributed the problem. Hint: it pertains to math in the computer world.)

and you can find that with the url:

http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~klinger/dozen.html

The following I've at least one URL that shows my basic style for a test question: one right answer, one wrong answer, one wrong but possibly right (if you don't really know the subject). http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~klinger/fundvisip.html

http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~klinger/firstq.html

Half of eleven.

http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~klinger/findout.html

http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~klinger/Half.11.html

http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~klinger/inprogress.html (pointer to Pizza problem) copy the text (Gavin Wu transcribed what I told him in order to make up this jpg : http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~klinger/pizza1.jpg

http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~klinger/query1.html

Nine Apples Four Baskets.

Odd Viewed from Solids

In the first century A.D. the question How can the cubes be represented in terms of the natural numbers? was answered by the statement: Cubical numbers are always equal to the sum of successive odd numbers and can be represented this way. For example,

1^3 = 1 = 1

2^3 = 8 = 3 + 5

3^3 = 7 + 9 + 11

4^3 = 13 + 15 + 17 + 19

Determine why this is so. Find the odd decomposition of 7^3.

Odd as a Numeric Quality

How can you place nine apples in four baskets so there is an odd number of apples in each?