Electronic Proceedings of the Twelfth Annual Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics



CONTRIBUTED PAPER: 12-C7

Visual Linear Algebra: Web-based Exploration Applets


Bruce Elenbogen, David A. James, and Michael Lachance
University of Michigan - Dearborn
Dearborn, MI 48128
E-mail: boss@umich.edu

ABSTRACT

Interactive applets for linear algebra have been developed at the University of Michigan Dearborn to help students not only develop basic skills (for example, learning to produce matrices which manipulate other matrices), but also explore more advanced topics (discovering eigenvectors using visual feedback, and viewing 3-d objects through their Singular Value spectral series expansion.)