In the Beyond Numbers exhibit, visitors are challenged to organize morning tasks so they can leave the house in record time. This achievement was possible only with careful production planning that included the critical path method. NASA used the critical path method to help determine an efficient schedule for the tasks that led to the moon landing. In this exhibit, you used the critical path method to organize your morning. Students model situations using oral, written, concrete, pictorial, graphical and algebraic methods.
Students know that theories and aplications in mathematical work influence each other.
This then represents the minimum time to do the entire set of tasks in a project. Someone tried out a schedule and tinkered with it to see if it got better. Modern mathematics has offered a broad array of optimization techniques and other tools to assist with the solution and understanding of scheduling problems. In a homework problem, students experiment with scheduling in preparation for a band concert. Then they are shown the critical path method of scheduling.