18.06 Linear Algebra
Age 11Sample11-year-old · 6th grade

Mixing two walks

From The Geometry of Linear Equations · Gilbert Strang

The same puzzle is also 'can I mix these two arrows to land on the target?'

Original lecture on MIT OpenCourseWare

Before this sitting

Can you already do this?

Two quick checks on “you will be able to…”. Right on both and this sitting becomes mixed practice, not a lecture. Wrong is useful — we keep the full sitting.

  1. x(2, 0) + y(0, 2) = (2, 2). A solution is…

  2. The column picture of a 2×2 system asks…