Body Measurements: Bones meets Leonardo DaVinci

Topics: linear model, residuals, rate of change, scatter plots, correlation coefficient

• Project Description and Rubric
• Measurements Record Sheet

Modeling Digital Images: It's U-shaped, but is it a parabola?

• Project Description and Rubric
• Instructions for Modeling with Geometer's Sketchpad and Fathom
• Geometer's Sketchpad digital image and models (requires GSP 4)
• Fathom document with scatterplots, models and residuals plots (requires Fathom)
• Key Curriculum Press publishers of Geometer's Sketchpad and Fathom

Trigonometric Model of daylight hours, CO2 levels, spring motion

Topics: sine models, period, amplitude, frequency, phase shift, vertical translations by constant or linear function, dampened sine,

Psychology of Colored Words: the Stroop task

Topics: linear regression, scatter plots, rate of change, experimental design

Designing a Pizza Box from a Template

Topics: cubic and quadratic regression, minimum and maximum values

The Spread of Disease

Topics: logistics modeling

Growth of Children

Topics: exponential and logarithmic growth, piece-wise functions, rate of change

Life Expectancy in Western Countries

Topics: linear regression, scatter plots, rate of change, histograms

The King's Chessboard

Topics: exponential growth, unit conversion, logs

General Rubric

Will women ever run as fast as men?

Topics: systems of equations, graphing lines of best fit, writing equations of graphed lines, determine the meaning of slope, y-intercept, and x-intercept in the context of the data, solving systems of linear equations graphically or algebraically, linear models

Flatland: A Romance in Two Dimensions

Topics: dimensional concepts

Art, Fibonacci Numbers and the Golden Mean

Topics: ratios, decimal approximation of binomial radicals, scale drawings, Fibonacci sequence

Can you determine p experimentally?

Topics: geometric probability, ratios, areas of squares and circles, random numbers, comparison of theoretical and experimental values