Students will also explain findings from changes made in their program. Students will demonstrate their changes and create new problems. Presentations and projects will count for group grades. Castle Warwick to Castle Howard Project, adapted from Addison Wesley Publishing. Students will work in groups of four on the following problem.
Students are to come up with their own hands-on model to solve the following problem.
After each group has had a chance to work on the problem, the class will collect and discuss its data together. Our hero Molly is trapped at Castle Warwick. The only escape is to reach Castle Howard through a system of canals. The problem is that the system of canals has five gatekeepers, each run by a cranky gatekeeper who shows up for work half the time. So the probability that a gate is open on a given day is one half.