Project

Places to Look for Project Ideas

• William Dunham’s Journey through Genius
• Howard Eves’ Great Moments in Mathematics
• Nicholas J. Goetzfridt’s Pacific Ethnomathematics
• Marcia Ascher’s Ethnomathematics
• The Mathematical Association of America’s Mathematical Treasures Webpage
• Our text book
• University of St. Andrews project ideas
• National Museum of Mathematics webpage

Some Specific Project Ideas

• Any topic that we skim over in class.
• First steps in the development of Probability, Statistics, Topology, Graph Theory, Complex numbers, Combinatorics
• Zeno’s Paradoxes
• Perfect numbers, amicable numbers
• Early formulations of logarithms
• Early formulations of the notion of a function

Project Timeline

• (Fri 17 Feb) Project Proposal
  • topic and rough narrative
  • two sources
  • submit a PDF to Jill’s email

• (Fri 3 Mar) Project Finalized

• (Fri 31 Mar) Project First Draft
  • presentation slides
  • written materials to students
  • submit pdf and slides to Jill’s email
  • sketched written materials are not acceptable
• (Fri 21 Apr - Fri 28 Apr) Student Presentations
  • The presenter provides reading materials to students at least 2 days in advance.
  • At least two reading questions
  • 15 minute presentation with 10 minutes for questions
• (Fri 5 May) Final Draft of Written Material
  • submit a PDF to Jill’s email

Project Grading Rubric

Component	Percent of Project Score	Standards
on time submission	10	If you are late you lose points.
complete negotiated proposal	10	All or nothing.
first draft	10	0-5-10 scale
presentation	20	0-10-20 scale
final paper	50	quality of writing, clarity of mathematics