Sheri, 5th grader, uses 2 transformation matrices on the dog

The first matrix in red Sheri made up, in red, didn't change the dog and was the matrix that acted as 1 in multiplication. The 2nd matrix, in blue, reflected the dog in the line x=y, producing the inverse!


See Don's book "Changing Shapes With Matrices" and sample problems from this book.

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Sheri writes 64 using exponents
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Sheri uses the quadratic formula to find base for Don's age of   114? = 7110
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Sheri starts Trig

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