WQTHannah

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Presentation: content, layout, comprehension, creativity/props, enthusiasm, and listens to other presentations. ||
 * Goal || Analyze a quadratic equation and determine the best way to solve it. ||
 * Role || You are looking for a job in technology and mathematics. ||
 * Audience || High school math students who want to see real life quadratics in action in order to study for the SATs. ||
 * Setting || You have been hired by the SAT Board of Directors to make a wiki page that gives real world samples of quadratic equations to allow high school students to practice for their SATs. ||
 * Presentation || Make a wikispace giving quadratic equations with a link for the different problems with answers. ||
 * Standards || Wiki: content, naviagtion, content accuracy, learning of material, creativity, and cooperative work

=Introduction= There have been complaints that students do not want to study for the mathematical part of the SAT because it is "boring and has nothing to do with real life". It is your job to make a wiki that has real life problems and answers for these students to study and realize that there are fun, real life quadratic equations everywhere around them.

=Task=

Your job is to make, solve, and practice 5 to 7 real life situation problems because high school students are complaining that quadratic equations have nothing to do with everyday life and they just don't want to learn about them. It is your task to make and solve these real life quadratic equations, using several of the methods for solving, including graphing. You will need to come up with a cool team name and make a colorful, catchy wiki space with the practice questions on it. Includes links to get to the different problems, and with each problem, show how the answer was found (showing your work!). You may work in pairs to research true SAT questions and then make a wiki page. Your team will be hired by the Board of Directors only if it is the best, so be ready to compete with many other teams out there that are vying to make the best wiki! And finally, when you get your wiki space up and running for those high school students that are thirsting for knowledge, you must have at least two teams check out, proof read, and comment on your page. Remember- mistakes look very unprofessional!

=Conclusion= The point of this product was to have students understand real life situations with quadratics in them, to prove that math isn't just something that is learned in a classroom and stays there, it is everywhere! I also asked students to do this using a wiki, because I want themt to use technology with math. It makes it very easy for fellow students (and teachers!) to get to the student's work and leave a comment.