Mathematician & Lab Project Selections

Select one of the following Lab Activities for your group's presentation:

1. The Ant and the Blade of Grass

2. Radioactive Waste at a Nuclear Power Plant

3. Constrained Extremum

4. The Car Trip

5. Perimeter of an Ellipse

6. Soap Bubbles

7. Harvesting a Population of Fish

8. The Flight of a Baseball

9. Pension Funds

10. Parachuting

Adapted from James Stewart's “Single Variable Calculus Concepts and Contexts - 2nd Edition - Calc Labs with The TI - 85/86”

– Brooks/Cole Thomson Learning, - 2001, p. 131 - 157