Matrix Vocabulary
Dimensions
Name That Element
Augmented Matrices
Challenge
100

A matrix is made up of these individual numbers.

What are elements?

100

How many rows are in this matrix?

[ 2 3

  5 -1

  0 7 ]


What is 3?

100

What is the element in Row 1, Column 2?

[ 7 -1 4

  2 5 9

  0 3 -6 ]

What is -1?

100

Write the augmented matrix:

x + y = 6

2x - y = 3

What is

[ 1 1 | 6

 2 -1 | 3 ]

100

[ 1 0

  0 1 ]

This special matrix is called the?

What is the identity matrix?

200

The arrangement of numbers in rows and columns is called this.

What is a matrix?

200

What are the dimensions?

[ 1 4 2 ]

What is 1 x 3?

200

What is the element in Row 3, Column 1?

[ 7 -1 4

  2 5 9

  0 3 -6 ]

What is 0?

200

Write the missing coefficient: y = 4

What is 0 for the x-coefficient?

200

True or False: Can you interchange any two rows to do row operations?

What is True?

300

Matrices are usually named using this type of letter.

What is a capital letter?

300

What are the dimensions?

[ 6

  -2

  5 ]

What is 3 × 1?

300

What is the element in Row 2, Column 3?

[ 7 -1 4

  2 5 9

  0 3 -6 ]

What is 9?

300

Write the augmented matrix:
-3x + 2y = 10

4x + y = -2

[ -3 2 | 10

   4 1 | -2 ]

300

What does the identity matrix look like?

What is

[ 1 0
0 1 ] ?

400

The notation “m × n” refers to this.

What are the dimensions of the matrix?

400

How many columns are in this matrix?

[ 3 8 2 1

 -4 0 9 5 ]

What is 4?

400

What is the element in Row 1, Column 3?

[ 7 -1 4

  2 5 9

  0 3 -6 ]

What is 4?

400

Identify this matrix as coefficient matrix, augmented matrix, or identity matrix: 

[ 2 -1 | 8 ]

What is an augmented matrix?

400

What is the goal of row reduction?

What is to get the identity matrix?

500

The set of numbers on the left side of the augmented matrix (before the bar).

What are the coefficients?

500

Give the dimensions of the matrix:

[ 1 0 3

  5 1 -1

 -2 4 7

  0 0 6 ]

What is 4 × 3?

500

What is the element in Row 3, Column 3?

[ 7 -1 4

  2 5 9

  0 3 -6 ]

What is -6?

500

What system matches this matrix?

[ 1 -2 | 5

  0 1 | -3 ]

What is x - 2y = 5 and y = -3?

500

If the final matrix is

[ 1 0 | -4

  0 1 | 7 ]

what is the solution?

What is (−4,7)?