The final exhibition for math was held at AHS and consisted of the all the students rotating and answering questions about student loans, taxes and credit cards. I was personally on the student loans group and my job was to explain to someone about a scenario that they had and what their options were for student loans and interest rates and what I think they should pick based on those constraints. I really liked doing this because money was something that I knew quite a lot about and i'm really good at managing it. It could have been a little better if it was better promoted and we got more people (I only talked to two people the hour that I was at the booth) and maybe make it a little more organized. But otherwise, it was a fantastic project and I really enjoyed learning about it, mostly because this is things that I will have to use soon when I start applying for colleges. Tuition isn't cheap these days and its hard to get a good loan in these economic times, this will be definitely something I use in the near future, and also for when I have to start paying taxes.
Cookies Project
The cookies project was purely for graphing with constraints, and using them to find a maximum profit point
Here is a letter that I wrote to "Mr. and Mrs. Woo" who are the main characters in the overall problem we used , and they were having troubles finding how many cookies they could make in the shortest amount of time with the maximum profit. Here is a letter I wrote to "them" explaining how to resolve their problem.
Picturing Cookies
By Devin Feilen
Dear Mr. and Mrs. Woo,
I have explored your problems and your limited amount of time and oven space and cooking materials. These are the amounts of Oven space, time icing and dough that you can use:
(Oven Space)
130 Cookies Per Batch
(Dough)
113.5 Pounds Of Dough
(Time)
15.75 Minutes Per Batch
(Icing)
22 Pounds Of Icing
The big overall question was what was the maximum money that they could get with their constraints. The maximum profit I used was 160$. I used the equation- 1.5P+2I=(Max Profit). With this equation and the constraints. I found my feasible region and the maximum profit available. The answer to the “Big question” I found, was (75,55). This was inside the feasible region and worked out with all the constraints on Icing, Time, Dough and Space. I am fairly certain this is the most money that you can get by using your constraints.
Sincerely,
Devin Feilen
Make-your-own-math project
For this project, me and my partner (Dylan Kroes and myself) went and looked at different cars and how they are similar in features and specs. Click on the buttons to view my data tables and my reflection and write-up!