Teach with MATLAB and Simulink

Courseware for Primary and Secondary Schools

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learn to code with MATLAB

An online, interactive tutorial that teaches the basics of programming using MATLAB

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Computational Thinking Activities with MATLAB

Explore interactive activities to develop lifelong engineering and computational thinking skills and practices.

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Course Curricula

Treasure Hunt Game: Learn to code

Interactive live scripts that teach students basic programming concepts and basic terminology through game development

Equations and Systems: Interactive Notebook

An interactive notebook that uses MATLAB live scripts to help students analyze and learn to solve different types of equations and systems of equations

Fundamentals of Programming

An overview of programming concepts including arrays, strings, loops, and algorithms with a project.

Analyze Nenana Ice Classic

Analyze real-world climate data from the Nenana Ice Classic dataset (1917 - 2021) in the context of the engineering design process.

Bytes and Beats: An Introduction to Programming with MATLAB

Comprehensive lesson plans with dozens of hands-on activities for teaching the fundamentals of programming with MATLAB while making music (Recommended for ages 10+)

Getting Started with MATLAB and Simulink for VEX Robotics

Detailed lesson plans and companion videos for teaching a robotics course using MATLAB, Simulink, and a VEX robot

Pixels to Pictures

Project-based course that teaches the basics of programming; students will learn about digital images and transform them using MATLAB to create their own digital story (Recommended for ages 10+)

Calculus Derivatives

An interactive module that introduces fundamentals of derivatives, including the product and chain rule as presented in Calculus I courses

Modeling and Simulation of Multi-Physics Systems with MATLAB and Simulink

A downloadable book with accompanying code files from a course on modeling and simulation of engineering systems that span electrical, hydraulic, and mechanical domains

Robotics Playground: An Introduction to Mobile Robotics with MATLAB and Simulink

Step-by-step exercises using MATLAB, Simulink, and Stateflow for integrating common robot sensors and creating teleoperated and autonomous mobile robot algorithms (Recommended for ages 12+)

Calculus Integrals

Interactive examples using MATLAB to visualize and practice integral calculus and a calculus flashcards app

DC Circuit Analysis

Explore interactive lessons plans and labs to teach DC circuit analysis using MATLAB live scripts and Simscape models.

Selfie Sample

An interactive MATLAB App that allows you to turn a photo of yourself into a musical sample

AstroVolley

Courseware that teaches the basics of plotting and app building with MATLAB; students will create their own astrodynamics game

10 Tasks on Math Modeling

A collection of 10 fun tasks to teach students mathematical concepts, including analyzing the perfect basketball shot, cracking secret messages, and helping stranded astronauts get back home

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Lessons and Examples

MATLAB Basics

MATLAB Plot Gallery

Examples and code for many ways to display data graphically in MATLAB:

  • Line plot
  • Function plot
  • Histogram
  • Contour plot
  • Scatter plot
  • 3D plot

Data Analysis Lessons

Lecture slides, videos, and exercises covering several topics, including:

  • Interpolation
  • Basic descriptive statistics
  • Data presentation

Engineering, Science, and Physics

Here Comes the Hurricane! Saving Lives Through Logical Reasoning and Computer Science

Students use a hurricane tracking map to measure the distance from the eye of a hurricane to a city. Then they analyze MATLAB code that uses the distance formula repetitively to generate a table of data that tracks a hurricane at specific time intervals—a helpful approach for a dynamic situation such as tracking storm movements.

Physics Lessons

MATLAB exercises covering topics including:

  • Simple harmonic motion
  • Damped vibrations
  • RC circuits
  • Resultant force

Mathematics

Linear Equations Game

Student groups act as aerospace engineering teams competing to create linear equations to guide space shuttles safely through obstacles generated by this modeling game created with MATLAB.

Calculus Lessons

Lecture slides and problem sets covering topics including:

  • Numerical differentiation
  • Numerical integration
  • Max/min problems

Experiments with MATLAB

MATLAB app with 20 interactive STEM examples for exploring several mathematical concepts, including:

  • Iteration
  • Fibonacci numbers
  • Orbits
  • Shallow-water equations
  • Morse code

Games

Precalculus Challenge

Challenge your students with precalculus problems using MATLAB and Cody. Developed by a former high school teacher. Problems include:

  • Length of a hypotenuse
  • Dimensions of a rectangle
  • Side of a rhombus

Game Projects

Projects for writing MATLAB programs to develop seven games, including:

  • Battleship
  • Adventure
  • Connect Four
  • Othello
  • Card and dice games