Joan Weiss

Fairfield University

Workshop Participant, Website Contributor

Website Content Contributions

Activities (2)

MATLAB Explorations part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2018:Activities
"MATLAB Exploration" assignments encourage students to use MATLAB as a tool to explore mathematical concepts. Two sample assignments are included. One is a brief introductory assignment for students in ...

MATLAB Explorations: Use MATLAB to Explore Lagrange Polynomials part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2019:Activities
"MATLAB Exploration" assignments encourage students to use MATLAB as a tool to explore mathematical concepts. The goal of the attached sample assignment is to guide students to investigate the behavior of ...

Essays (2)

Using MATLAB as an Exploration Tool in Numerical Analysis and for Computational Thinking in the Sciences part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2019:Essays
Joan Weiss, Mathematics, Fairfield University After completing my doctorate in 1979 I have been tenured by two institutions to be the lone Numerical Analysis instructor. So in forty years I have taught a Numerical ...

Using MATLAB as an Exploration Tool in Numerical Analysis part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2018:Essays
Joan Weiss, Mathematics, Fairfield University After completing my doctorate in 1979 I have been tenured by two institutions to be the lone Numerical Analysis instructor. So in nearly forty years I have taught a ...