This is the summary of a presentation given at the Joint Mathematics Meetings, January 10-13, 1996, Orlando, Florida.

Mathematics educators from three quite different institutions of higher learning -- Grinnell College, The University of Washington, and Seattle Central Community College -- are jointly developing an interactive linear algebra text. The text is being organized in clusters of individual modules to facilitate its adaptation to many different curricula. The underlying mathematics software package is Maple. The main goals of the project are: 1) to help students develop their geometric intuition about the concepts of linear algebra; 2) to deepen their understanding of the algebraic formulations of these concepts and strengthen their ability to manipulate them; and 3) to help students gain an appreciation of how the concepts and methods of linear algebra are applied. The text is being designed to support collaborative learning and writing to learn. Many exercises will encourage experimentation and exploration and many will ask for written hypotheses and conclusions. The entire text will be made available via the World-Wide Web. Support is provided by a grant from the National Science Foundation.

Eugene A. Herman, Grinnell College
Michael D. Pepe, Seattle Central Community College
Robert T. Moore, University of Washington
James R. King, University of Washington