Standard Projects for Math 319

Most people will choose one of these projects, but people are still free
to do a project of their own creation (with my advice and consent).

* A problem from the Math Contest in Modeling (MCM) or CUMCM.  These
 should happen in two parts:
 - first, do the problem without consulting the published best solutions
     and judges' commentary.  Turn this in about half a week before the
     main project due date.
 - then, go copy the published best solutions and judges' commentary.
   Write a report that compares your solution to those papers and the
   judges' commentary.

* A problem from the High-school MCM (the HiMCM), or
  Moody's Mega Math  Challenge, done similarly to the above.
 - note that this gets only 3 out of 4 topic ambition points.
 - To boost it to a 4 out of 4, do the above AND include in your second report
   some aspects of how you might teach this topic to a future class.

* Write a lesson plan for a high-school class, based on some content
  from our class.  (see the Project Overview and Grading Rubric for more)

* Choose your optimal Fantasy Football team (or any other sport).  For more on this
topic, see
http://people.emich.edu/aross15/math319/team-selection-project-guidelines.txt

* Shift scheduling in whatever job you currently have (restaurant waitstaff, etc.)

* Write up your notes from one of our class units as a textbook chapter that
  I could give to future Math 319 classes.  Include new exercises, etc.

* A challenge problem like those at kaggle.com, or the Netflix contest, etc.

* The Analytics X Prize, http://www.analyticsx.com/

* The FAA design competition, http://faadesigncompetition.odu.edu/

* A problem from The PuzzlOR, http://puzzlor.editme.com/
  (though these tend to be a little bit easier than the MCM, for example, and would
   probably get only 2 out of 4 topic ambition points.)