Thursday, February 5, 2009

Thrusday, Feb 5/09


Today in class Mr.Maksymchuk set up the scribing schedule, enlisted the class in the blog, talked to us about his class policies, and he also recorded a 20 minute video about Matrix Operations.

Class policies are to be courteous by not wearing head gear, and by shutting off cell phones. Food and drinks are not allowed in the classroom, with the exception of water, due to the computers.




The recording that Mr.Maksymchuk made for the class explains the rule for adding matrices. The Rule being: the matrix dimensions must be identical. For example Both must be 2x2 3x3 etc....
In other words: The corresponding numbers must be added.

It also explains subtraction... in a very simple way. Subtraction is the same as addition. The Rule: the dimensions must be the same, and subtract instead of add.

Mr.Maksymchuk also explains Scalar Multiplication.
The resulting number is.... using Mr.Maks' words.... "The resulting number is a "much" not a direction."
To my understanding.... the scalar number is multiplied to each number in the matrix.





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