Mathematics (Other)
The following projects were created by UTeach PBI students following content guidelines of either the second or fifth 6th weeks of the Austin Independent School District's scope and sequence.
*** Water Distribution: Students will investigate the importance of accessing, purifying, and distributing water. Over the course of five weeks, students explore many aspects of water access in order to solve our driving question: "How can we determine a fair distribution of the perishable and limited compound to water stakeholders throughout Central Texas?" Students are assigned the role of a water stakeholder (in Central Texas) and formulate arguments on how much water they should be distributed yearly. Students learn about measurements, flow rates, percentages, proportions, and statistic, graphing, and modeling. Students will use their findings to present their argument in a class' stakeholder meeting.
https://sites.google.com/site/pbiteamwaterspring2013/
*** Fantasy Sports: The main objective for this project is to use statistical analysis in a real world application. Most students believe that mathematics is only computational and can only be used in everyday life for financing, budgeting, calculating interest rates, and determining percentages. We want our students to not only know that math is an integral and essential part of the daily functions of society, but that it can also be used to measure the chance of how likely an event is going to occur. Statistics is primarily used to make predictions based on data or to make conclusions about a population of interest. Statistics appears in the majority of science and is classified as the science of making conclusions in the presence of uncertainty.