These paramaters were developed collectively with the students in a brain storming process before the project was started.

Organization and Format:

• Title
• Topic of Investigation/Project

Statement of Purpose (Introduction)

• Series of Questions that are explored

List Questions and their investigations

Will the use of graphs, spreadsheets, tables, etc. enhance your investigation

What depth will you achieve in your investigagion?

What is the practicality of these questions?

• If applicicable, make a comparison of the financial decisions and make a decision as to which is the better decision.
• Conclusion

What have you learned

In what ways have you achieved your goals?

• Reference List

Expectations for your Investigation

• Use Mathematical tools in your investigation
• Multiple forms of representation
• Free of computational errors
• Develop and show your work
• Use appropriate mathematical notation
• Insight into your problem
• Depth of investigation
• Demonstrates mathematical reasoning (mathematical decisions)

Overal Presentation

• Clearly communicated
• Organization
• Interesting
• Relevence to your life or to the "real world"
• Justified Conclusions (if not based on mathematicas behind project, why?)