Charles Hepler
ABSTRACT
Linear algebra is one of the required mathematics courses for students majoring in computer science. With the small class sizes at our institution, we have the opportunity to use teaching strategies often reserved for senior level courses at larger universities. In this paper the authors discuss their experience with an innovative project schema that is designed for students in an elementary linear algebra course, and how it fullfills the requirements from the report to ACM [11].
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