1) How long will it take for my Devil's Ivy to fill my dorm room floor?
--daylight available through the window?
2) What was the total distance I walked this term to and from Jennings?
--does snow make a difference?
3) How long would it take to read all of the books in the world?
--and at what rate would you need to read to catch up to the books being written?
4) If all the precipitation for Bennington happened at once, how many feet of snow would that have been?
--how long would the blizzard be?
5) How many trees could be saved by converting add/drop/other forms into online?
--what about all of the classes vs. an ipad?
--how much wood is burned for electricity/computers?
--how much paper does each computer need to save?
6) How far does a balloon travel after a child lets go of it?
--with wind?
--with no wind?
--what's the highest a balloon can go?
7) How much money could you make if you saved bottles and cans from the Bennington College campus?
--are we considering the writer program, because....
--what about scrap from the dining hall?
8) How much time do you spend on your phone during your life?
--do we need to break people up into different groups (my grandma did not use her phone all of the time, that's for sure)
9) What's the longest conceivable shadow we can get on the ground during Manhattan henge?
--where do the roads end?
--what would be the best angle?
10) How high in the air would you need to drop a penny for it to go as fast as a bullet from a gun?
--is there a terminal velocity?
--what would happen to the penny?
11) How much time in your life have you listened to your favorite band?
--as a percentage of other bands?
--how long until you can memorize the song?
12) What is the probability that you will walk through a doorway at the same time as someone else during a day on Bennington campus.
--are there times with higher probabilities?
--Where are the places you would be most likely to
--same direction or different direction?
13) How often does a group of people say a specific word?
--inside joke or common word (like loofah)
--are there words that appear more written than they do in context?
14) How long will a stick of deodorant last you?
--what type lasts longest assuming same volume of use?
15) How much money is wasted when you skip a class at Bennington college?
--what about enjoyment expectations
--what is a fulfilling life worth and does class help that ***this may be out of the realm of a mathematical context
16) How long until Mt. Everest reaches outer space?
17) How much did you spend on adult beverages over the term?
--what about trips to and from the store?
--time wasted/unusable? (person hours lost)
18) How much does a single line of well written code cost?
--what about badly written code?
--does this include the cost of the computers?
19) How many windmills would it take to power all households in the u.s.?
20) How long would it take for a person to pace themselves entirely into the ground?
--different surfaces/rounding for optimal (thinking a parabola here)
linear regression:
--get our name data
Linear
http://science.kennesaw.edu/~plaval/applets/LRegression.html
Issues with correlation:
http://illuminations.nctm.org/ActivityDetail.aspx?ID=146
Quadratic
http://science.kennesaw.edu/~plaval/applets/QRegression.html
Exponential
http://science.kennesaw.edu/~plaval/applets/ERegression.html