Matrices

Given probabilities of taking paths in a graph from each node, use matrix multiplication to find the probability of going from one vertex to another in 2 stages, or 3, or 4 or even 100.

This problem in geometry has been solved in no less than EIGHT ways by a pair of students. How would you solve it? How many of their solutions can you follow? How are they the same or different? Which do you like best?

Use matrices to find out how much cake I eat.

Use matrices to model this popular party game.

What happens when you find the powers of this matrix?

Explore a new way of multiplying with matrices.

Explore the properties of matrix transformations with these 10 questions.

Explore the transformations and comment on what you find.

Investigate the transformations of the plane given by the 2 by 2 matrices with entries taking all combinations of values 0, -1 and +1.

Matrices and Complex Numbers combine to enable us to create four dimensional numbers.