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Blain Patterson
Applied Math, School of Engineering
Virginia Military Institute
Assistant Professor of Applied Mathematics at Virginia Military Institute
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Activities (2)
Battleship part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB: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, ...
Pop-Up Programming part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop October 2022:Activities
This activity aims to engage students in a low-stakes activity to build confidence and review basic topics such as indexing an array, vector, or matrix. The class is arranged so that the students are seated in a ...
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Assessing Computation with Projects part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2023:Essays
Blain Patterson, Applied Math, Virginia Military Institute I feel that computational skills are best assessed through projects. However, these projects are often done in small groups, so it can be difficult to ...