Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Friday, May 6, 2011
PreCal goes to the REAL World
Hi everybody!
So we have two assignments over the weekend.
1. Read the two articles below, and fill out the terminology sheet given to you in class.
Washington Post Article on the risk of home mortgage loans
Foreclosure Crisis Is Spreading, New Data Show, an NPR article from October 28, 2010
2. Please take a look at the following list of topics. Pick the top three topics that you are interested in researching and presenting. Write a short paragraph to explain your interest for each topic. Email me at jzhang@ma.org by Monday 5 pm with your list of three.
• Mortgages and the downfall of the housing market
• Credit Cards
• College Loans
• The National Debt
• Retirement Account (IRA, 401k or 403b)
• Population Growth and its effects on ________ (you can fill in!)
• Population Growth or Decay of a particular animal species
• California Budget Deficit
• CO2 emissions and Global Warming
• Spread of disease
• Radioactive Materials (from Japanese earthquake and other sources)
• Spread of information (example: the role Facebook, Twitter & blogs played in spreading messages during the uprising in Egypt.)
• The Golden Ratio and its applications to architecture, art or music
• The math behind leasing vs. buying a car
• REICHTER Scale & Recent earthquakes
• Predicting the Dow Jones
• Fertilizers, pesticides or other toxins and its effect on soil or water quality
• Logs and musical scales
• Modeling blood alcohol levels and clearance times
So we have two assignments over the weekend.
1. Read the two articles below, and fill out the terminology sheet given to you in class.
Washington Post Article on the risk of home mortgage loans
Foreclosure Crisis Is Spreading, New Data Show, an NPR article from October 28, 2010
2. Please take a look at the following list of topics. Pick the top three topics that you are interested in researching and presenting. Write a short paragraph to explain your interest for each topic. Email me at jzhang@ma.org by Monday 5 pm with your list of three.• Mortgages and the downfall of the housing market
• Credit Cards
• College Loans
• The National Debt
• Retirement Account (IRA, 401k or 403b)
• Population Growth and its effects on ________ (you can fill in!)
• Population Growth or Decay of a particular animal species
• California Budget Deficit
• CO2 emissions and Global Warming
• Spread of disease
• Radioactive Materials (from Japanese earthquake and other sources)
• Spread of information (example: the role Facebook, Twitter & blogs played in spreading messages during the uprising in Egypt.)
• The Golden Ratio and its applications to architecture, art or music
• The math behind leasing vs. buying a car
• REICHTER Scale & Recent earthquakes
• Predicting the Dow Jones
• Fertilizers, pesticides or other toxins and its effect on soil or water quality
• Logs and musical scales
• Modeling blood alcohol levels and clearance times
Thursday, May 5, 2011
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