{"id":155,"date":"2023-07-14T20:18:04","date_gmt":"2023-07-14T20:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/grant-funding-archive\/grant-archive\/adding-computer-programming-component-and-digitalized-project-repository-for-math-214-linear-algebra-and-applications\/"},"modified":"2023-07-14T20:18:05","modified_gmt":"2023-07-14T20:18:05","slug":"adding-computer-programming-component-and-digitalized-project-repository-for-math-214-linear-algebra-and-applications","status":"publish","type":"grant_archive","link":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/grant-funding-archive\/grant-archive\/adding-computer-programming-component-and-digitalized-project-repository-for-math-214-linear-algebra-and-applications\/","title":{"rendered":"Adding computer programming component and digitalized project repository for Math 214, Linear Algebra and Applications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Jun Li<\/strong>, Select Department | 2020-2021<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Math 214 is the introduction to Linear Algebra class for non-math majors, with an emphasis of applications<br \/>\nof linear algebra in economics, computer science, engineering etc. Most students are those majors.  Last<br \/>\nseveral years have seen the vast development of Data Science where Linear Algebra serves as the<br \/>\nfoundation. And from a survey, students expressed a strong desire that the introductory linear algebra<br \/>\nclass cover some applications to Data Science and machine learning, in particular, more on algorithms and<br \/>\ncomputer programming to solve real problems.  <\/p>\n<p>The aim of the project is to add computer programming technology of linear algebra to Math 214, both in<br \/>\nlectures and group works. Student group works will also be digitalized and possibly extended to build an<br \/>\nonline project repository and will be shared with students and future instructors of this course and other<br \/>\nrelated courses. \u200bVarious information technology will be used in this project\u200b: In the lectures we are going<br \/>\nto use programming languages that\u2019s most popular in modern IT industry such as Python and Jupyter<br \/>\nnotebook to demonstrate examples.  Because of the Covid-19 remote instruction, all such course notes<br \/>\nwill be written in python files and distributed to students in cloud-based services (a GitHub site has been<br \/>\ncreated for this purpose). A senior student assistant will help prepare\/proofread programming files and<br \/>\ndocuments. We\u2019ll also video record those zoom lectures and post them weekly on YouTube\/Canvas. Group<br \/>\nwork assignments that emphasizes on solving real-world problems using applied linear algebra with<br \/>\ncomputer programming will also be created, and students will collaborate through cloud-based websites.<br \/>\nStudents who excel in their group assignments will be invited to digitize their reports and possibly do<br \/>\nextensions. These will then be gathered to form a digital project repository for the course. <\/p>\n<p>This project is going to greatly improve the remote instruction, in the following three aspects:\u200b 1) The live<br \/>\nprogramming part in the lecture will effectively attract students\u2019 attention in the remote instruction mode.<br \/>\n2) Students can download the digitized lecture notes\/project solutions, and interactively play with them<br \/>\nusing their own computers to help their self-study or review process. 3) The cloud-based way of working<br \/>\non the lecture notes\/projects will facilitate the collaboration between students in the current situation;<br \/>\nthis is also great for the  (future) instructors remote collaborations&#8212;all the digital project repository are<br \/>\nreusable and by simple revision ( changing numbers, etc.), new assignment can be generated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","grant_category":[4],"class_list":["post-155","grant_archive","type-grant_archive","status-publish","hentry","grant_category-level-i","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/grant-funding-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/grant_archive\/155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/grant-funding-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/grant_archive"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/grant-funding-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/grant_archive"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/grant-funding-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"grant_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/grant-funding-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/grant_category?post=155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}