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Topic: Maximum Volume Project Gary Adams in collaboration with Temenoujka Fuller 2008
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Rationale:
Students have a project to
design and construct an open top rectangular box from a piece of paper.
The box should hold maximum volume possible. Justification for the
project must include a full-page graph of the volume function. The graph
should be supported with various coordinates that may be selected.
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Goals and Objective:
In the third
part of the workshop, tutors support students only in the Learning
Center. The workshop is developed for intermediate algebra. The problem
is a loop to calculus. Using Excel students can justify their solution.
In the learning center students will get help with Excel and with design
and construction of the box.
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Implementation:
Students present the box, technical report, and presentation in
classroom.
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Results and Future Goals:
We would like this project or
similar to be used in more classes.
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Collaborations, Experiences, Climate, and Culture:
The
collaboration between the Learning Center at CAC, and Professor
Adams classes continue in math 122. This time students work with Excel,
PowerPoint, and real materials. The results are the best in many ways:
highest level of independence, the integration of different strategies
for solving problems, the authenticity of the project is higher than the
first two project.
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