Taught by Mrs. Durost, this course goes beyond the traditional high school mathematics curriculum by engaging students with advanced and open-ended projects. Students learn the application of algebra, geometry, trigonometry, and statistics to model real world situations, and if in the advanced track, are given the opportunity to take Calculus III and Calculus III at WPI.
This is one of the 'problem of the week' (POWs) that we completed in math class. My partners for this assignment were Sam Wheatly and Liam Bratane.
The objective was to create a procedure to find the day of the week of someone's day of birth, and use simple enough math such that anyone would be able to follow along.
This problem was a great way of understanding the inner workings of the 'modulo' operator, and was a standout way of using our existing knowledge and apply it in an interesting way.
Modeling the Future Challenge (MTFC) is an academic competition developed with the Institute of Competition Sciences. The premise of the MTFC is to mathematically model how a new technology or industry might change the future, with a chance to win $60,000 in scholarships!
My team for this assignment was myself, Abhiruph Seetha Ramam, Ananth Gomattam, Corey Lu, and Richy Yan. The topic that we chose to model was the effects of coral reef degradation in tropical climates.