How can we figure out which provider is best? Does one plan end up being more expensive than the other? In this project, we will be figuring this all out, as you saw in the title, we will be ussing examples from Telus, Bell, and Virgin Mobile. This is our driving question for the project:

Constant rate of change is an esssential attribute of linear relations and has meaning in different representations and contexts

 

My partner Luca, and I, divided the tasks. Though we both helped each other within our tasks, I focused on the creation of our presentation, Luca worked on putting together the equations, and we both worked together to research the providers.

 

This is my mind map, this covers the main lessons I learnt throughout the creation of the project.

 

Model with mathematics in situational contexts 

Compared to past projects, this one was easiest to compare to a situational context. I compared the linear equations to phone plan shopping, and the steps that could be taken in real life, to find the best one. I made sure to include the conversations with each of the providers, something that happens in real life when looking for a phone plan, and also the thought process of what your needs are for your phone plan, my character in the video, needed a long term plan, because he is going off to university.

 

Explain and justify mathematical ideas and decisions in many ways 

I made sure to make the process of comparing each plan, very clear throughout the video. As this process was happening in the video, the mathematical ideas, such as the price, amount of GB, and amount of texts, were shown in a conversational way. It can be difficult to show the data without just listing it in a chart, but this way, I was able to keep the video engaging, and keep the story of the video going.

 

Visualize to explore and illustrate mathematical concepts and relationships 

The mathematics were shown through linear equations, graphically, and algebraically. In order to show the relationships we included a graph to show the slope, and intercept point, for all three of the equations. Because I could illustrate these concepts in a sense, I was able to understand how phone plans work, and that through marketing, one plan can seem cheaper at first.

 

Use mistakes as opportunities to advance learning 

After Luca and I presented our video infront of the class, we were given revisions, per usual. When I’m in group projects, I can sometimes have a difficult time splitting up work. After we received our feedback, Luca offered to do these revisions to the video, and I was able to handover the the job and not worry about if it wasn’t going to look right, or wasn’t going to be the way I wanted it to be. In the end, I was very happy with our final product.