Blain Patterson

Applied Math, School of Engineering

Virginia Military Institute

Assistant Professor of Applied Mathematics at Virginia Military Institute

Workshop Participant, Website Contributor

Website Content Contributions

Activities (4)

Battleship part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:Past Workshops:MATLAB Workshop 2023:Activities
This activity aims to engage students in a low-stakes activity to build confidence and review basic topics including indexing matrices and vectors, extracting data from a matrix, operating on data from a matrix, ...

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Essay (1)

Assessing Computation with Projects part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:Past Workshops:MATLAB Workshop 2023:Essays
This essay page from the 2023 MATLAB Workshop on Teaching Computation discusses challenges in assessing computational skills through group projects, particularly addressing workload distribution issues in student teams, and seeks strategies for evaluating individual contributions within collaborative computational assignments.

Workshop Participant (4 workshops)

Teaching Computation with MATLAB Workshop 2025
October 2025 MATLAB Workshop 2024
October 2024 Teaching Computation with MATLAB Workshop 2023
October 2023