Math Modeling

Mrs. Burns teaches Math Modeling, and it is an exciting course. No matter the math experience, the content taught is always tricky and needs some adjustment. Students use aspects of all math areas to combat life-applicable problems. This class uses the most creative thinking, as there could be multiple ways to solve a problem. Furthermore, we participate in math competitions like HiMCM, MTFC, and NEMAL.

Birthday Pow

This problem exemplifies how we learn to communicate math in simple terms and using simple logic. Sure, there are many ways to complete problems quickly with methods such as mod, but Birthday Pow had criteria for only using the four primary arithmetic operations. This problem was to develop a system for finding out the day of the week on which someone was born based on the date when the person was born. We also created some code to solve this.

Epsilon Presentation

I worked with Samhitha and Anthony to tackle the Epsilon School problem. The problem is that in a school, there is an increase in the number of incoming students for that freshman year. Therefore, we, a consulting group, are asked to hire eight teachers and be responsible for which departments they should be put into to help combat the influx of students in classes. We considered that some teachers could teach multiple courses and had to understand the courses that the new students would be taking, as well as the current students. Attached to the right is a presentation of our solution.