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Should we teach linear algebra through geometry?

✍ Scribed by Ghislaine Gueudet-Chartier

Publisher: Elsevier Science
Year: 2004
Tongue: English
Weight: 175 KB
Volume: 379
Category: Article
ISSN: 0024-3795
DOI: 10.1016/s0024-3795(03)00481-6

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✦ Synopsis

Can geometry help students learn linear algebra? I study this question and demonstrate that there is no obvious clear answer: geometry can be an obstacle to learning linear algebra; or it can be helpful. Geometry is helpful only under certain conditions and with a specific use of drawings. These special requirements for using geometry are apparently not much recognized in our teaching of linear algebra courses, at least in France, where my educational studies have taken place.

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