Learning Goals
Students will be able to formulate variables, expressions, equations, and inequalities for a real school or everyday-life maintenance scenario to represent quantities and constraints.
Students will be able to create and graph equations in two or more variables for a facilities or maintenance problem to show relationships among quantities.
Students will be able to analyze tables, graphs, and equation sets from a modeling situation to determine which options are viable or nonviable under cost and time constraints.
Students will be able to interpret solutions to one-variable equations and inequalities in context to justify a recommendation for a maintenance decision.
Students will be able to collaborate through critique and revision to refine labels, representations, and reasoning in a shared mathematical investigation.
Students will be able to communicate a justified mathematical recommendation using evidence from expressions, equations, inequalities, tables, and graphs.
Products
Investigation Notebook for the Maintenance Decision Model
A research-style notebook where each student documents question development, variable choices, calculations, raw tables or graphs, and personal analysis of the scenario. It must show how the student tested options, noted uncertainties, and explained which solution was viable.
Model Makers Fair Decision Brief and Booth Presentation
A team investigation report and short public presentation that synthesize members' evidence into one recommendation for the scenario. The product must include methodology rationale, visual representations, limitations, and responses to conflicting or anomalous findings.
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