Goals of this Section

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This section is on learning to use mathematics to model real-life situations.

The following video outlines the general structure and intent of the course up until we cover section 8 (polynomials).

By the end of this section students should be able to:

Have an understanding of what a mathematical model is.
Explain the benefits (and weaknesses) of mathematical models.
Be able to use a basic approach to build a generalize mathematical model.
identify and describe the types and roles of variables in mathematics.
Produce a generalized model given minimal initial information.