MAT110(E):05 Group Project Presentation Assignments

Tuesday, April 19

Group 1 - Euler's Pi
Alexis Picket
Tara Brock
Elle Haight
Pam Snyder

Group 2 - BaSiL Pizza
Lyle Simon
Shelby Lasley
Beau Hill

Group 3 - Cookie Fantastico
Savannah Gully
Samantha Robinson
Brittney Williams
Andrea Ebling



Thursday, April 21

Group 4 - Pizza Math/Best Ice Cream
Sean Gray
Taylor Smith
Duncan Miller
Leba Korovou

MAT110(E):04 Group Project Presentation Assignments

Tuesday, April 19

Group 1 - Cookie Crumble
Danyel Becker
Shan Xiong
Jenifer Yang

Group 2 - Espressoself
Abby Sexton
Robert Vardiman
Maiya Jackson
Riley Trowbridge

Group 3 - Pizza Joe
Sarah Raynor
Nayelly Barron

Group 4 - The Coffee Hut
Paige Griffee
Megan Bailey
Brandon Harrison


Thursday, April 21

Group 5 - Food and Junk and Stuff
Andrew Garrett
Sara Pepper
Sean Taylor
Colton Locke

Group 6 - Kalena Pizza Shop
Octavia Riley
Kalena Thompson
Brooklyn Hinton

Group 7 - Danni's Pizza Delivery Co
Connor Haynes
Danni McMiller
Stephon Weaver
Markell Harmon

Group Project - Final Guidelines

Your group project presentations will be on Tuesday, April 19 and Thursday, April 21.  Your written project will be due in class on Thursday, April 21.  You should follow the following guidelines in constructing your final project and presentation. (These guidelines have also been uploaded to your google drive folder.)

Math 110E Group Project Final Draft Guidelines

            The final component of your group project is made up of two components – a large writing assignment and a presentation.  Your job will be to not only solve the problem, but to present the solution so that others understand your solution.  This is a group project; it is expected that every member of a group actively participate in the project and contribute to the final result.  Groups should be 2-4 people in size.  Below are the general guidelines that should be followed in writing the final draft of your project.

The Written Portion (50 points):

• The paper should be typed in 12 point font, double spaced with one inch margins, and should be 7-12 pages in length (including any pictures and data tables) and stapled.
• Each group member’s name should be included on the title page
• Include any outside references or sources used cited in proper APA or MLA format
• The written portion of the paper will be due in class on Thursday, April 21, 2016.

Presentation (40 points):

• 10-20 minutes in length
• Should be given as if you were presenting your results to an investor.
• Presentation should include at least 3 of the objectives you solved to help improve your business.
• You should use PowerPoint to create your presentation and use any charts and/or graphs to help support your case.
• Presentations will be given the week of April 19-21.  You will be assigned a presentation date by April 12.

Individual Contribution (10 points):

·      Each group member will evaluate the contributions of their fellow group members throughout the project.

The following questions will be considered in grading of the project:

Paper quality and accuracy:

• Did they use proper grammar?
• Are the ideas well organized?
• Did they use proper referencing of data and formulating of work?
• Did they correct errors from initial drafts?
• Does the paper contain numerical accurate data?
• Did they use proper mathematical formulas and vocabulary?

Presentation and Creativity:

• Do the display of data and graphics contribute to the work?
• Were they creative in the development of the project?
• Is the paper properly pitched to the intended audience?
• Was the presentation clear?
• Was the presentation consistent with the information given?

Financial Math - Week 10

Class on Tuesday, March 29th is canceled. You should read the notes over the unpaid balance method and average daily balance method (slides 38 - 48) and try the homework.  I will answer any questions you have on Thursday and we will start with annuities.  The video below gives a nice example of how to use the average daily balance.  Please watch the video to help you calculate the finance charge. 

The next video below shows how to find the finance charge using the unpaid balance method.

Challenge Problem: Look up several credit card offers (at least 3).  Describe the offers that you find.  What benefits do they offer? How is the interest calculated? What is the interest rate? Describe the advantages and disadvantages to each card.  Be sure to include links to your references.

Group Projects

Just a friendly reminder - your drafts for the Probability and Statistics Objectives for the group project were due last Friday.  If your group did not complete this draft, please let me know when you have uploaded it to your google drive so that I can give you feedback on these objectives before you turn in the final project. 

Your Financial Math Objectives have been uploaded to your group google drive folders.  You should begin working on those now.  When you submit your draft, it should be a single typed document containing all of the work to answer the two objectives.  I will be uploading directions for your final draft and group presentations soon, so that you can begin compiling all of your work into one document. 

Financial Math - Week 9

We will be starting the Financial Math unit this week in class.  Please make sure you print out the notes and bring them with you to class.  We will start this week with a discussion of interest - simple interest and compound interest.  There will be a lot of formulas in this unit, and you will need to practice with them to get comfortable using them.  I will provide you with the formulas (unlabeled) for the exam, so you need to focus on identifying what formulas apply to what problems.  In addition, it will be very important to remember your calculator for class every day in this unit - you don't want to have to do these calculations by hand!

Those of you in MAT099 should have been reviewing logarithms and exponentials in that class recently.  We will be using logarithms to help solve problems in this unit; if you need additional review of logarithms, please see me.  The webpage below is also a good source of review for problems involving logs and exponents.

Exponential and Logarithmic Equations

Challenge Problem: If I invest my money into an account earning 4.13% interest, compounded weekly, determine how long it will take for my investment to double.

Probability and Statistics - Objective 2

The video below provides some guidance to answering objective 2 of the Probability and Statistics objectives for your group project.

New Blog Prompt - Probability

The blog post below is due by Friday, March 18.  

Your blog post this week should have two parts.  First, give me an update on your group projects.  How are the projects going? Is your group working well together? I know not all groups are able to find time to meet.  This is fine if you are dividing the work and still communicating with one another via email.  Just keep in mind, you will all share the same final grade on the projects. 

For the second part of your blog post, please visit the site below.  This website provides many applets to model probability experiments.  Of particular interest to you may be the examples under "Finite Sampling Models", "Dice", and "Games of Chance".  Play with 2 or 3 of the applets and in your blog, describe the applets you chose.  How do they model the probability experiment? How could you actually find the probabilities being modeled?

Probability Applets

Week 8 - Probability and Statistics completed and Exam 2

This week we will be finishing up statistics on Tuesday, followed by a review for the exam.  Please be sure to print the exam review and work the problems before coming to class.  You will be randomly assigned a problem from the review to post on the board and will earn extra credit for posting a correct solution.  For this reason, there is no challenge problem this week.

Our exam will be in class on Thursday.  Make sure that you are on time to class and bring your calculator, pencil, and eraser.

Week 7 - Statistics, continued

This week we will be finishing up with statistics with a discussion of normal distributions and confidence intervals.  This material can be a little tricky, so make sure you get a good head start on the homework.

Our Probability and Statistics Exam will be next Thursday, March 10.  There is a lot of material in this section, so you should start studying early for this exam!  You should think of this material in 3 chunks - counting, probability, and statistics.  You have a lot of resources to help you study - webwork homework and associated worksheets, handouts given in class, and the study guide below.  Please print this study guide and work out the problems for class on Tuesday.  You will be presenting your solutions on the board in class on Tuesday.

Probability and Statistics Review


Challenge Problem: Suppose the scores on a standardized exam follow a normal distribution with mean 78 and standard deviation 9.  What score must you receive to be in the top 10%?