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Beaver, Scott – PRIMUS, 2015
For efficiency in a linear algebra course the instructor may wish to avoid the undue arithmetical distractions of rational arithmetic. In this paper we explore how to write fraction-free problems of various types including elimination, matrix inverses, orthogonality, and the (non-normalizing) Gram-Schmidt process.
Descriptors: Algebra, Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Matrices