Except under the conditions described in the Copyright Act 1968 of Australia and subsequent amendments, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the written permission of the publishers. Titles in the series are: Functional Equations David Leigh-Lancaster Contemporary Calculus Michael Evans Matrices Pam Norton Foundation Numeracy in Context David Tout & Gary Motteram Data Analysis Applications Kay Lipson Complex Numbers and Vectors Les Evansįirst published 2007 by ACER Press Australian Council for Educational Research Ltd 19 Prospect Hill Road, Camberwell, Victoria, 3124 Copyright © 2007 Pam Norton and David Leigh-Lancaster All rights reserved. MathsWorks for Teachers has been developed to provide a coherent and contemporary framework for conceptualising and implementing aspects of middle and senior mathematics curricula. Powerful calculators calculators and computers and computers can now can now carry outcarry complicated out complicated and difficult and numeric difficult numeric and algebraic and algebraic computations computations involving involving matrix methods, matrix and methods, such technology and such technology is a vital tool is ain vital related tool real-life, in relatedproblemreal-life, problem-solving solving applications. Matrices are used in many areas of mathematics, and have also have applications applications in diverse in diverse areas such areas as such engineering, as engineering, computer computer graphics,graphics, image processing, image processing, physicalphysical sciences, sciences, biological biological sciences and sciences socialand sciences.
A selection of student activities with solutions and text and web references are included throughout the book. A feature of the book is the complementary use of technology, particularly computer algebra systems, to do the calculations involving matrices required for the applications. The basic theory in each of these areas is explained and illustrated using a broad range of examples. This book provides mathematics teachers with an elementary introduction to matrix algebra and its uses in formulating and solving practical problems, solving systems of linear equations, representing combinations of affine (including linear) transformations of the plane and modelling finite state Markov chains. MathsWorks for Teachers Series editor David Leigh-Lancaster
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