February 1: Group Membership and Progress Report
February 15: Final Report

A contract for consultation from the Tunnel Vision, Inc.  (Adapted from Dr. Barry S. Spieler, Birmingham-Southern College who adapted it from a project in Smith/Moore, Calculus: Modeling and Application, Houghton Mifflin (1996), p. 459; which in turn was adapted from Fraga (ed.), Calculus Problems for a New Century, MAA Notes no. 28 (1993), p. 90.)

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 February 1.

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.