Bouncing Ball Explorer part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:Past Workshops:MATLAB Workshop October 2022:Activities
Duncan Carlsmith, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Exploration of the sound of a bouncing ball dropped on a hard surface, the sound recorded with a mobile phone or laptop microphone, is the basis for an accessible experiment in elementary mechanics. For ...

Solving Systems of Equations part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:Past Workshops:MATLAB Workshop 2024:Activities
Conroy Robinson, University of Technology, Jamaica
This activity is geared towards teaching students how to use MATLAB to solve systems of simultaneous equations, simplify and plot graphs of polynomials.

Classification Exercise - Pattern Recognition part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:Past Workshops:MATLAB Workshop 2024:Activities
Luis M Vicente, Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico
This exercise contains instructions for a university project related to pattern recognition using MATLAB. Students are tasked with testing a pre-designed classifier, analyzing results, and submitting a detailed ...

Taylor Series and Efficient Calculations of Transcendental Functions part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:Past Workshops:MATLAB Workshop 2024:Activities
Ethan Duckworth, Loyola College in Maryland
This module helps students learn/relearn about Taylor series, the remainder theorem, symbolic tools in MATLAB, and writing efficient functions for calculating transcendental functions. Students are reminded about ...

Measuring voting districts and distributions part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:Past Workshops:MATLAB Workshop 2024:Activities
Eugene Mahmoud, Mt. San Antonio College
This project-based activity allows students to use MATLAB to analyze voting district boundaries and their relationship to social and environmental justice. Students recreate geographic borders, calculate centroids, ...

Matrix Coding & Decoding part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:Past Workshops:MATLAB Workshop 2024:Activities
Edith Aguirre, El Paso Community College
The activity provides students with a 3x3 matrix key that will be used to code and decode messages. Students will use MatLab to code, and matrix multiplication to encrypt a message. Then their encrypted message ...

ROC models for memory part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:Past Workshops:MATLAB Workshop 2023:Activities
weiwei zhang, University of California-Riverside
This teaching activity provides a visual illustration of several major cognitive models of human memory using Receiver Operating Characteristics (ROCs) and Matlab. It is designed to show the students how various ...

Procrustes Skull Analysis part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:Past Workshops:MATLAB Workshop October 2022:Activities
Emily Dosmar, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Procrustes analysis is a form of statistical shape analysis used to analyze the distribution of a set of shapes. The goal of this assignment is to compare different skull types to a reference skull to determine ...

Numerical Simulation Basics: Accuracy and Model Validation for a Finite-difference Equation part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:Past Workshops:MATLAB Workshop 2023:Activities
Jim Boyle, Western Connecticut State University
This activity teaches students a few of the basic concepts for numerical simulation of physical systems by modeling the simple and well-known problem of free-fall. The recursion relation for the finite-difference ...

Battleship part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:Past Workshops:MATLAB Workshop 2023:Activities
Blain Patterson, Virginia Military Institute
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, ...