Post date: Dec 4, 2012 12:00:50 AM
Today we continued our mini math seminar. In small groups, you are tackling a real-life problem that's in the news now. We can use our knowledge of exponential growth and decay to gain insight into the death of Yassar Arafat.
Here are the marked slides from class.
Here again is the recent article from CNN.
Here are the instructions and the prep you did over the weekend (pages one and two), including the sheet we did yesterday (agreeing on variables, page three), and the one we are doing today (answering two thinking questions about proving/disproving Yassar Arafats' death, page four) for our mini-seminar preparation.
You will be assessed in the format outlined in this document: 50 points for preparation and 50 points for group work collaboration on Monday and Tuesday. If you did not have the prep for today, you were not allowed to participate in the mini-seminar.
Group work on Monday and Tuesday will be assessed via the TBLS Math Collaboration Rubric.
In addition, here is the reflection piece we did in class: we should always be striving to self-reflect and self assess our progress, but Ms. Yang and I would also like to know about how we're doing.
Tomorrow we start the inverse of the exponential function.
In preparation, please read and annotate this article from Math Better Explained, and write down two thoughtful questions you have after reading.