Fractal geometry is a new language for the complex forms and patterns found in nature.
It provides new tools to describe, model, analyze, and measure the natural world, and wonderful new connections within the world of mathematics. Fractal geometry is exciting, visual, relevant to many disciplines, and lends itself naturally to technology supported activities. Both students and teachers with relatively little mathematical background can approach a large number of current research problems in this area and appreciate the integration across traditional disciplines. Approximately 180 upper level middle and high school math and science teachers were trained. A supplement to this grant extended the training to 35 teachers from grades 4 through 6 in the summer of 1998.