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Monday, March 5, 2012
Friday, March 2, 2012
Airplane
1) Provide a breif description of the activity. Who did you work with? What did you build? What challenges did you overcome to succesfully craft your aircraft? I workeed with preston and max, we made a airplane out of balsa wood. We encounterd the challange of glue not working, peices falling apart and knife no cutting to weel.
2) Post a photo of your glider under construction.
3) Post a photo of your finished design.
4) Describe how you tested your aircraft and tuned its flight characteristics.
To test are aircraft we threw it and what weaknesses we obseverd we fixed.
5) Describe how well your aircraft flew in our competition. Did you win any events (furthest distance, longest time aloft)? Were you competative in our best decorated flier competition? We lost every contest but the longest distance are plane went a good distance.
6) Pick three steps from the PLTW 12 step design process and describe how your team worked through these during the course of this experience.
2) Post a photo of your glider under construction.
3) Post a photo of your finished design.
4) Describe how you tested your aircraft and tuned its flight characteristics.
To test are aircraft we threw it and what weaknesses we obseverd we fixed.
5) Describe how well your aircraft flew in our competition. Did you win any events (furthest distance, longest time aloft)? Were you competative in our best decorated flier competition? We lost every contest but the longest distance are plane went a good distance.
6) Pick three steps from the PLTW 12 step design process and describe how your team worked through these during the course of this experience.
1. We brainstormed ideas on how to improve the plane.
2. We tested our plane and evaluated its preformance3. After we tested and evaulated our plane we corrected problems found to increase the prefomance of our plane.
Thursday, March 1, 2012
moneyball
1) What was the “Moneyball”approach that Billy Beane and Peter Brandt applied to the Oakland Athletics 2002 season? Was it an “art” or a “science”? What single statistic did they boil their value consideration down to? (In class research/discussion)
The moneyball technique is a science and the stat was on base precentages.
2) What is the equation used to calculate OBP? (In class research/discussion)
obp is (Hits + Walks + Hit by Pitch) / (At Bats + Walks + Hit by Pitch + Sacrifice Flies)
3) What is design? (In class research/discussion)
Design is just comming up with idea for how something should be.4) Describe 3 situations where movie characters (intentionally or not) applied a step from the PLTW 12 Step Design Process. Explain both the (a) situation as well as (b) how the step is relevant:
1 - Billy brainstorms players to bring in that fit the needed roles
2 - Billy beane idenfities a problem in lack of money
3 - Billy hires a guy that mathmaticlly can make a good team.
5) What is “Leadership”? List the three aspects of leadership that we come up with in class. (In class research/discussion)
1 - leading a group like being the guy who keeps everyone on task.
2 - leading a group by telling them what ideas to use.
3 - seeing how a good leader can affect a group.
6) Describe 3 circumstances from the story where a character exercised effective leadership:
1 - the coach led the team and told them what to do
2 - Billy beane lead the exectutives to get a good time
3 - jason giambi led his team to victory
7) According to the movie, what was the A’s record at the start of their winning streak? 68 : 51
8) What does this ratio simplify to (roughly)? 1.3: 1
9) How long was the A’s record setting winning streak? 20 games won.
10) Given the A’s win/loss ratio at the start of the streak (listed two questions above), what are the odds of winning 20 games in a row? Run the numbers. (In class research/discussion)
The odds are .000013
11) Based on your calculation, do you think the A’s got lucky or was there something to the Moneyball approach? I think both, they didnt have a good fundmental team but the moneyball approach made them a betetr team.
12) Did Billy Beane strictly apply the “science” of Moneyball to his management approach? Was there an “art” to his efforts as well? Describe a circumstance where he broke from the Moneyball approach to make a positive change for the team.
I find it to be stricly sceince because its all science based
The moneyball technique is a science and the stat was on base precentages.
2) What is the equation used to calculate OBP? (In class research/discussion)
obp is (Hits + Walks + Hit by Pitch) / (At Bats + Walks + Hit by Pitch + Sacrifice Flies)
3) What is design? (In class research/discussion)
Design is just comming up with idea for how something should be.4) Describe 3 situations where movie characters (intentionally or not) applied a step from the PLTW 12 Step Design Process. Explain both the (a) situation as well as (b) how the step is relevant:
1 - Billy brainstorms players to bring in that fit the needed roles
2 - Billy beane idenfities a problem in lack of money
3 - Billy hires a guy that mathmaticlly can make a good team.
5) What is “Leadership”? List the three aspects of leadership that we come up with in class. (In class research/discussion)
1 - leading a group like being the guy who keeps everyone on task.
2 - leading a group by telling them what ideas to use.
3 - seeing how a good leader can affect a group.
6) Describe 3 circumstances from the story where a character exercised effective leadership:
1 - the coach led the team and told them what to do
2 - Billy beane lead the exectutives to get a good time
3 - jason giambi led his team to victory
7) According to the movie, what was the A’s record at the start of their winning streak? 68 : 51
8) What does this ratio simplify to (roughly)? 1.3: 1
9) How long was the A’s record setting winning streak? 20 games won.
10) Given the A’s win/loss ratio at the start of the streak (listed two questions above), what are the odds of winning 20 games in a row? Run the numbers. (In class research/discussion)
The odds are .000013
11) Based on your calculation, do you think the A’s got lucky or was there something to the Moneyball approach? I think both, they didnt have a good fundmental team but the moneyball approach made them a betetr team.
12) Did Billy Beane strictly apply the “science” of Moneyball to his management approach? Was there an “art” to his efforts as well? Describe a circumstance where he broke from the Moneyball approach to make a positive change for the team.
I find it to be stricly sceince because its all science based
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