January 25: Group Membership and Progress Report
February 5: Final Report

A contract for consultation from the Council for the Protection of the Environment (adapted from assignment by Gavin LaRose, University of Michigan).

You are to self-select groups of two to three students. You are to inform me of your groups members and make a progress report on your early findings by January 25.

The students are often apprehensive about the grading of group projects, but you get to determine the distribution of the points for your group. For example, if your group of three receives 50 on an assignment, then you have a total of 3 x 50 = 150 points to distribute among yourselves. You fill out a form, sign it, and return it to me. For the most part, the students split the points evenly, occassionally they allocate the points differently.

I will be creating a grading rubric that I will make available for you here. In the mean time,  Annalisa Crannell at Franklin & Marshall College has some excellent advice about writing mathematics.