Cartoon: Our reliance on technology

Cartoon: Our reliance on technology
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Thursday, March 29, 2007

Math Presentation

Hey everybody! If you haven't noticed I have not been at school due to illness. However, nonetheless I have been keeping busy with assignments and everything. I want to talk about my upcoming math presentation. We were asked to get into groups and do a hard problem and present it to the class. However, the group that was ahead of us did the same problem as us. Needless to say, we did not want to be known as "copycats". Thus, we stuck to the same problem but we are going to present our linear programming problem in a much different fashion.. thus introducing technological innovations. I am going to try post our math powerpoint presentation on this blog so bare with me. We used the Microsoft Excel program to figure out the calculations and boy was it hard considering we were confused on the one equation to punch in. The question we chose was about a father, son, and daughter going for a walk and they can walk at different speeds. Also a bike is involved where only one person can ride at a time (they can go faster on the bike). Thus, what is the fastest time that all three individuals will finish within 20 kms. That is a brief synopsis of the question, I will post the real question as well as the Excel format at a later date. But I am just so proud of this powerpoint, considering it looks so simplistic... yet it was HARD due to getting the timing and animations down pat. ***Can I actually post a powerpoint presentation with 3 slides on here please comment if you know***

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