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

In the course of teaching two quarters of linear algebra I have developed several group projects. Each Wednesday the class was put randomly into groups of three or four and the entire period was devoted to these projects. I will discuss the pedagogic philosophy of giving up one third of the quarter to this activity, but primarily I will discuss the actual projects and how they tie in to the course. Particular project topics include coding theory, the geometry of eigenvectors, Fibonacci numbers, and Markov processes.

Brian P. Hopkins, University of Washington