Dynamical Systems

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General Information

Name: Dynamical Systems and Technology Project

Home Page URL: http://math.bu.edu/DYSYS/dysys.html

Brief Description: An NSF-sponsored project designed to help secondary school and college teachers of mathematics bring contemporary topics in mathematics (chaos, fractals, dynamics) into the classroom, and to show them how to use technology effectively in this process. At this point, there are several interactive papers available designed to help teachers understand the mathematics behind such topics as iterated function systems (the chaos game) and the Mandelbrot and Julia sets.

Stated purpose: See above.

Sponsoring/Funding Institution: NSF

Persons Involved: Bob Devaney, bob@math.bu.edu

Groups and levels they aim to serve: Secondary and college teachers.

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Highlights...

Here are the areas of the site that are most extensive:

• A Clickable Mandelbrot Set and Julia Set Movies
• Fractal Geometry of the Mandelbrot Set
• Chaos in the Classroom

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