📅 2024-08-29 — Session: Developed and Integrated Linear Transformations Class

🕒 17:15–17:40
🏷️ Labels: Linear Transformations, Python, Education, Matrix Operations, Teaching
📂 Project: Teaching
⭐ Priority: MEDIUM

Session Goal

The session aimed to develop a comprehensive class structure for teaching linear transformations, integrating practical coding exercises to enhance understanding.

Key Activities

  • Created a detailed outline for a 3-hour class on linear transformations, covering scaling, shearing, rotation, and affine transformations with Python exercises.
  • Explained Python functions for 2D point transformations, detailing their purpose, inputs, outputs, and interactions.
  • Integrated coding activities into the class structure to reinforce theoretical concepts through practical application.
  • Planned teaching strategies for matrix inversion, focusing on definitions, importance, and calculation methods.
  • Resolved and verified exercises on change of basis in B^3, including matrix construction and transformation verification.
  • Addressed discrepancies in change of basis matrix applications, providing Python code for verification.

Achievements

  • Successfully developed a structured class outline and integrated coding exercises for teaching linear transformations.
  • Clarified the use and implementation of Python functions for 2D transformations and change of basis matrices.

Pending Tasks

  • Further refinement of teaching materials and exercises to ensure clarity and engagement for students.