I am working on a new integrated high school mathematics curriculum project in the US--The Core-Plus Mathematics Project. In particular, I am writing an end-of-year "capstone" unit which is designed to pull together much of the mathematics that students have learned during the year as they investigate one big problem. I would like to use the context of environmental issues as related to forests, for example, harvesting strategies, ecosystem changes, disturbances by fire, insects, or disease, economic and social impact, and the like. I am just in the brainstorm phase right now and am looking for good resources and good data that could be used. The mathematics that students (about age 15) will be expected to bring to bear on the problem includes matrices, coordinate geometry, correlation,polynomials, networks (vertex-edge graphs), basic trig, expected value, geometric and binomial distributions, simulations, linear functions, exponential functions. If anyone can suggest some good resources and data for this project I would be very appreciative. Thanks, Eric Hart Western Michigan University Core-Plus Mathematics Project ehart@miu.edu 515-472-1123 (fax) 515-469-6643 (voice)
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