MatricesAust Council for Ed Research, 2007 - 164 pages 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. |
Contents
Rectangular arrays matrices and operations | 11 |
Addition and subtraction of two matrices | 17 |
Zero and identity matrices | 23 |
Applications of matrices | 30 |
solving systems of simultaneous linear | 37 |
Solving systems of simultaneous linear equations using matrix | 43 |
The method of Gaussian elimination | 50 |
Systems of simultaneous linear equations in various contexts | 59 |
Contents | 75 |
transition matrices | 111 |
Curriculum connections | 136 |
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