Friday, July 01, 2011

Teaching 9th graders operations research

Our two-week project with Upward Bound came to a close yesterday. I've been working with Soumia Ichoua on her NSF-supported project to try to interest high schoolers in the fun side of math.

More to come after we've analyzed the assessment results and put the paper together.










Acknowledgements
Financial support for this work was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) through grant number 0927129 (Ichoua). This support is gratefully acknowledged. 
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