Projects for Assessment in Gen Ed Math

Presenter:	Joseph Sukta	In Loving Memory of
	Moraine Valley Comm. College	Charlotte Sukta
	Palos Hills, IL	Saint Laurence HS
	jsukta@morainevalley.edu	Burbank, IL

"One is so much less than two"
John Tukey

Description: Eleven projects, their solutions and corresponding WORD files are provided. The WORD files can be downloaded and assigned to your students. The WORD files can also be modified. Step by step instructions for using the TI 83 / 84 calculator for list management, evaluating formulas, using memory, entering data, finding basic statistics and graphing are included. These projects are used in both my online and traditional classroom Gen Ed Math course.

List (data) Management

Select the TI-83 or the TI-Smartview screen to learn about:

Saving data lists (STAT editor, L1 - L6) to named lists.
Recalling named lists to the STAT editor (L1 - L6).
Transferring lists from your calculator to TI-Smartview.

WORD 97, .doc files

WORD 07, .docx files"

Select the WORD icon on the left to be taken to the WORD documents
(.doc and .docx files) for the projects.

When you select a document, select "Cancel" if authentication information is requested. The document will then be displayed.

1. Project: Simple and Compound Interest
      How much money will be in their grandchild's
      college fund 18 years from now?
      How much money must newlyweds deposit
      today to have $10,000 twenty-five years from
      now?

   Rationale Car When the loan officer states that "The simple interest
      formula is used to calculate the monthly interest", he is telling the truth.
      However what is being used for the principal? Is it the amount of the
      loan or the remaining balance?

2. Project: Car Purchase

Rationale Home What is my actual payment? What is Escrow?
Should I refinance?

3. Project: Home Purchase


		Do You Want Fries with that?

        4. Project: Annuities in Real Life
        How much should I deposit monthly
        A. Starting at birth for my child's college education fund?
        B. Starting on our wedding day for a 25th wedding anniversary cruise?
        C. To have enough money to start my own business?
        D. To have enough money to retire and not have to work in order
              to supplement my retirement?

U.S. NATIONAL DEBT CLOCK

The Outstanding Public Debt as of 12 Oct 2009 at 04:17:10 AM GMT is:

The estimated population of the United States is 307,084,684
so each citizen's share of this debt is $38,789.56.

5. Project National Debt
How far can a stack of $1 bills equal to the national debt extend? Will it
reach the moon?

Click on the National Debt above to view the current debt.

Rationale Home Renovation Perimeter, area and volume
are studied with the purpose of applying these geometric
concepts to home improvement (renovation) projects.

6. Project: Home Renovation

Rationale: Descriptive Statistics.
How difficult is it to construct a pie chart?

7. Project: Qualitative Data

8. Project: Quantitative Data   Use Descriptive Statistics to organize
     raw data into a table, make graphs, find measures of central tendency,
     dispersion, and outliers.

Rationale: Probability Distributions.
   How can the Las Vegas and riverboat casinos
   make money on their table games, video poker
   games, and slot machines?

9. Project: Raffle

The actual raffle site is : http://www.houseofdreamscharityraffle.org/Index.aspx

10. Project: Venn Diagram Calculate the probabilities and odds for a patient experiencing an
adverse side effect after taking an experimental allergy medication.

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11. Project: Normal Distribution Calculate probabilities for a given x
and determine x for a given probability. Both probability tables and
the built in functions of the TI 83/84 series calculator will be used.