Ingrid Daubechies Wavelet Activity (Function Transformations)

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• Cynthia J. Huffman Ph.D., Pittsburg State UniversityFollow

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Publication Date

7-27-2018

Abstract

This activity was originally created for a Women in Mathematics course to provide the students with a small taste of some basic mathematics connected to the work of Ingrid Daubechies on wavelets. The activity could also be used in a high school algebra or college algebra course to motivate transformations of functions, in particular, translation (shifting) and scaling. The functions used are a basic quadratic x², the exponential function e^x , and the sine function, but other functions could be used to fit the level of the students.

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This activity was originally created for a Women in Mathematics course to provide the students with a small taste of some basic mathematics connected to the work of Ingrid Daubechies on wavelets. The activity could also be used in a high school algebra or college algebra course to motivate transformations of functions, in particular, translation (shifting) and scaling. The functions used are a basic quadratic x², the exponential function e^x , and the sine function, but other functions could be used to fit the level of the students.

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Recommended Citation

Huffman, Cynthia J. Ph.D., "Ingrid Daubechies Wavelet Activity (Function Transformations)" (2018). Open Educational Resources - Math. 12.
https://digitalcommons.pittstate.edu/oer-math/12