Most laboratory sessions are designed to emphasize exploration and discovery of linear algebra concepts. During each laboratory session, students are guided by a set of written instructions and supervised by their instructor. Sessions are intended to be started during regularly scheduled 50-minute class sessions, and completed as homework. They are designed to be worked on by pairs of students, and require a written report of each pair of laboratory partners. The sessions require use of the MATLAB package, but could be adapted easily for other computer packages or even for graphing calculators.

If you would like copies of some or all of these laboratory sessions and/or of other classroom activities, please e-mail me: Email Janet Beery

Please note that since these laboratory sessions were prepared, a number of linear algebra laboratory guides have been published. Since University of Redlands linear algebra classes now meet in computer classroom/laboratories, I now tend to design shorter, less formal exploratory activities rather than to design class-length formal laboratory experiences.


Laboratory 1: Discovering Properties of Matrix Operations

Laboratory 2: Discovering Properties of Determinants

Laboratory 3: Linear Independence and Span: Linear Algebra in Deep Space

Source: Paul Wiener, St. Mary's College of Minnesota, CASE Newsletter

Laboratory 4: Using MATLAB to Make Least Squares Approximations

Laboratory 5: Diagonalization of Matrices