Related Rates

Related Rates

The report must be typed and well organized. It must be written in complete sentences and all the arguments must be justified. The report can not exceed three pages. This assignment will be graded both for mathematical quality and expository quality.

The textbook provides good models of mathematical expository style. The handout Writing in Mathematics (available on canvas) provide additional advice.

Write the paper for an audience of advance algebra students.

• Begin your paper with a brief introduction. You should restate the problem in your own words and as you understand it.

• Shows mastery of the meaning of the functions and their properties.

• Is mathematically correct as well as grammatically correct.

1 • Is well organized, coherent, and well written.

• Explain why you included the mathematical calculations or graphing method you did.

• Mix necessary mathematical equations and expressions with sentences of logic and explanation.

• Use present tense in explanations. Use ‘we’ to indicate the reader and author working together to solve the problem.

• Graphs and tables can often be very helpful. Any graph and/or table needs to be clearly labeled (both axes and key points) and the text needs to refer to it and explain what it shows.