Group Projects  

for use with Elementary Mathematical Models by Dan Kalman.

Several group projects are listed below. Each one makes some reference to Mathwright modules. For each project there is a brief description. Click on the link to obtain a copy of the handout I provided to my classes. These documents are all encoded as pdf files, and can be viewed and printed using Adobe acrobat, which is available for free. Download Adobe Acrobat Reader Software

• Arithmetic Growth Model. For this project, students are supposed to bring in some kind of graph from a news publication, and then develop a linear model to fit the graph as closely as possible.
• Quadratic Growth. This project concerns how counter numbers on a reel to reel tape recorder are related to elapsed time as the tape plays. An article published in a journal for physics teachers provides genuine data for this problem, and the data are observed to have nearly constant second differences.
• Geometric Growth. This project is very similar to the first, but the students are supposed to develop a geometric growth model.
• Dummy 1. This is a place holder.
• Dummy2. This is a place holder.