Required resources

Text

Linear Algebra and Its Applications by David Lay, Steve Lay, and Judy McDonald. 6th Edition, eText. Available from MyLab for free as part of the textbook rental system. Access it from our AsULearn course page. We will cover portions of chapters 1-6 in order to satisfy the catalog description: A study of vectors, matrices and linear transformations, principally in two and three dimensions, including treatments of systems of linear equations, determinants, and eigenvalues.

Technology 

• download or access the computer algebra system Maple (free) with the code on our AsULearn course page.

• scanning work to a full size multipage PDF. The course is designed so that you’ll collate work, including handwritten work,  into a full size multipage PDF.  You can electronically annotate a PDF using a stylus, or write on paper/print the PDF to write on and collate handwritten work into a multipage PDF, like by using Adobe Scan or CamScanner from a phone. You'll need to collate into one PDF to submit. Electronically, you can append a Maple PDF you create to the end of the Handwrite PDF, like Finder or Preview on a Mac or PDFsam on a PC. If you are printing, you can print your Maple work and then append it to the end of the handwritten work and then scan it. 

• reliable access to technology, software, and high speed connectivity. Between classes, the work you’re going to do you’ll be accessing though an internet connection with a device, so it will be really important to have access to a dependable high-speed internet connection, a good computer that can run everything we’ll need (you will not be able to complete all course activities through a smartphone), and a camera to scan written work in. Support services have advised me to tell you not to work in the app because it is so buggy as items work much better in a browser, they tell me. For example, in the app, some items won't show or submit properly. We’ll also use Zoom videoconference software.  If you don’t already have one you’ll also need a webcam, headphones or speakers and a microphone .  Flexible browsers that will play common media formats from various sources such as from webpages, Google Drive, YouTube, and ASULearn, including interactive videos, are also something we’ll use regularly.  You may need some flexibility in browsers so that if one browser is incompatible, you can try another.  Hybrid course students are expected to have or acquire proficient computer skills and to resolve their own technology problems related to computers or internet access to turn things in before deadlines. Work early and leave yourself enough time before any strict deadlines to allow for technical issues that may arise. For example, AsULearn will typically be undergoing monthly system maintenance on the last Thursday of each month from 5 am to 6 am. https://asulearn.appstate.edu/?redirect=0 announces downtime and http://Support.appstate.edu and https://confluence.appstate.edu/display/ATKB/Appalachian+Technology+Knowledge+Base can help

Prerequisites

I will assume you have facility with the following that you further developed in MAT 1120: Calculus II and Analytic Geometry: algebraic solutions of linear equations (partial fractions), visualizations and equations of curves and surfaces and linear intersections in 2D and 3D (rectangle and box slicing, both visually and algebraically), limits applied to diverse objects (like improper integrals and partial sums of series), sin and cos trigonometry (trig substitution), linear approximations (Taylor polynomial of degree 1, Euler’s method, and slope field), and mathematical reasoning and justifications (algebraic, numerical, and geometric reasoning). If you did not complete MAT 1120 recently or do not feel comfortable with the material, you should review material as we need it.