Monday, January 10, 2011

Quadratic Functions Practice

If you have 156 feet of fencing, and you'd like to enclose a rectangular area by creating a rectangle using an existing building as the third side, find BOTH the width that maximizes the area, and that area. Provide appropriate units, SHOW ALL WORK, and when finished, draw a flower in the bottom left corner of the work you hand me personally.

Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Research Project

Most people read the title of this thread, and think, "...yuck, blah, blah, blah....I don't wanna, etc....." What would it take for you to WANT TO do a math research project? Can you think of reasons (other than marks) to motivate 11th grade students to WANT TO participate in such an endeavour? What would it look like? What are reasonable time-lines? What value should it have within your course evaluation?

Your chance for input exists pretty much exclusively in the comments you choose to leave. If you have no opinion, you can't complain about what is decided without you....