Spring Break Extra Credit Opportunity

First, allow me to open by directing you to a blog that a friend of mine made a guest post on.

Can a College Class be a Game

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Extra Credit!

Project 1: Monopoly Guide

You are to write a game guide for a popular board game, Monopoly. This is no ordinary game guide, however. This guide should tell me what the best properties to buy are and support these statements by using mathematics. It should tell me when to roll to get out of jail and when to pay. It should be a comprehensive guide to the game with a strategy that gives me the best chance to win. There is a ton of information out there on probabilities and Monopoly, so this is more of a research project than an experiment. Please browse Game Theory! over at Wikipedia for an idea of how mathematics models conflict.

Your project should be colorful, catchy, and packed with gooey math goodness! This project offers the greatest chance for creative expression, if that's your 'thing'. Although you should attempt to make your game guide a pamphlet of a few pages, you will need a pure text copy to turn in to Turnitin.com.

Project 2: Report

You are to write a 2 page report on the history of math. I leave the actual topic in math that you choose up to you. As a starting place, here are some interesting historical topics in math.

• The origin of Pi
  
• Mathematics and War
  
• Famous Problems
  
• Math in Today’s Society
  
• Cryptography
  
• Game Theory
  
• The Origin of Numbers

If you choose this project you must clear your topic with me first. I will also require a bibliography so that I can verify where yo! u got your information and that you generated original materia! l. Plag iarized work will receive a zero as well as disciplinary action.

Project 3: Famous Problems

Your job in this project is to pick a famous problem from the list below, report why it was so important, who solved it (and who tried but failed) , and what impact its solution had on both the math community and the world. This report must contain the original problem on a separate page. A solution may be included as well but will not count towards the 2 page minimum. I will also require a bibliography so that I can verify where you got your information and that you generated original material. Plagiarized work will receive a zero as well as disciplinary action.

• Nash Equilibrium
  
• The Law of Gravity
  
• Theory of Special Relativity
  
• The Second Law of Thermodynamics
  
• Schrödinger Equation (Watch out, this one is tough – quantum mechanics)
  
• Any Cambridge Millennium Problem, solved or unsolved
  All projects must be submitted on Turnitin.com Instructions for doing so can be found here. Email me with your topic choice to receive the Class ID and password. The project will be due on April 16. Please have your submissions in to Turnitin by that time.
  
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