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K–12 Standards

High School - Modeling

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Modeling as a Process 1

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    Estimating how much water and food is needed for emergency relief in a devastated city of 3 million people, and how it might be distributed.1.1

  • 2

    Planning a table tennis tournament for 7 players at a club with 4 tables, where each player plays against each other player.1.2

  • 3

    Designing the layout of the stalls in a school fair so as to raise as much money as possible.1.3

  • 4

    Analyzing stopping distance for a car.1.4

  • 5

    Modeling savings account balance, bacterial colony growth, or investment growth.1.5

  • 6

    Engaging in critical path analysis, e.g., applied to turnaround of an aircraft at an airport.1.6

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    Analyzing risk in situations such as extreme sports, pandemics, and terrorism.1.7

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    Relating population statistics to individual predictions. 1.8

The basic modeling cycle2

  • 1

    identifying variables in the situation and selecting those that represent essential features, 2.1

  • 2

    formulating a model by creating and selecting geometric, graphical, tabular, algebraic, or statistical representations that describe relationships between the variables, 2.2

  • 3

    analyzing and performing operations on these relationships to draw conclusions, 2.3

  • 4

    interpreting the results of the mathematics in terms of the original situation, 2.4

  • 5

    validating the conclusions by comparing them with the situation, and then either improving the model or, if it is acceptable,2.5

  • 6

    reporting on the conclusions and the reasoning behind them. Choices, assumptions, and approximations are present throughout this cycle.2.6

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Grade 9, Grade 10, Grade 11, and Grade 12

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