Supporting Students' Interest in Mathematics through Applications from Digital Image Processing

We report on our efforts to support such changes in students’ interest and personal connection with mathematics through exploring applications in digital signal processing (DSP), an engineering field devoted to study of “signals” (primarily digital representations of speech, images, and video). We present and discuss a variety of multimedia laboratory activities that focus on digital image processing as a context for exploring a variety of mathematics concepts and present analysis and results indicating the benefits of this particular use of technology in the school mathematics classroom.