Project Title
Biscuits
Author
David Graser, Yavapai College, Prescott, AZ (David_Graser@yc.edu)
Abstract
This contrived project is based on a problem from Harshbarger and Yocco's College Algebra textbook. As with other projects, students use the letters in their own name to customize the project. They are given information about sources of nutrients in dog biscuits and the amounts of each source in the different types of biscuits. Using this information, students formulate matrices and then multiply them to total amount of each nutrient in the different types of biscuits.
Project Content
Scaffolding Resources
None
Notes
- Students often have a hard time discovering how the matrices should be labeled and using those labels, how the product should be labeled.
- This project could easily be changed to any set of products and sources of the materials used to construct those products.
