To go to a Concept:

• Click on the blue triangle
• Set the Joystick to a “variable”
• Manipulate the concept visualization to investigate it

Are you a visual learner? Have you had problems understanding math? Do you try hard but the concepts just don’t make sense to you?

You are not alone. Math is a visual language, its concepts are visualizations. Since textbooks teach math verbally, you have to be able to translate those verbal instructions into visual images in your mind. You have to make those visual images move and change. And for many students, perhaps half of all students, that can be very difficult.

EnableMath is designed for the visual learner. It presents mathematical concepts visually, dynamically, and interactively:

• Visually — with a simple and standard set of images
• Dynamically — these images can vary and track the values in a concept
• Interactively — you can control this variation
  

These visualizations are most useful when you begin to manipulate them in your mind and use them to solve all kinds of problems. These images are the concepts of mathematics. Experiment with them. Explore them. Play with them. Use them until you find that you can begin to picture them in your mind’s eye without the computer screen.

The Student Guide offers questions that help you do that exploring. We strongly recommend that you read these questions and try to answer them with the visualizations.

Everyone can learn and understand math. Try these conceptual visualizations and you too will understand math.