*Visualizing Mathematics  Featured Courses: Visualizing
Mathematics   Visualization has been at the heart of how people
learn and understand mathematics for over 2000 years.  course
image Reasoning from experience led the ancient Greeks to the
discovery of ideas that underlay mathematics we still use
today.For example, building and architecture led to the
formalization of many of the properties of basic shapes:
rectangles, triangles, and circles. Once those properties were
known, it was easy to find additional practical applications for
the knowledge.The diagram shows how a staff of known length, its
shadow, and knowledge of the basic properties of right triangles
can be used to measure an object of unknown length.   Students
in this course focus on visual representations of mathematical
ideas. If you’ve struggled with math in the past, this visual
approach may help make become reacquainted with math using
visual representations of mathematical concepts and by relating
those concepts to real life situations.