Category: Numbers and Computation

Better Bus routes

https://theconversation.com/school-bus-routes-are-expensive-and-hard-to-plan-we-calculated-a-better-way-74119 http://www.ams.org/publicoutreach/mathmoments/mm141-bus-bunching-podcast http://setosa.io/bus/ https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2018/07/math-explains-why-your-bus-is-so-late/564200/ https://www.ibm.com/blogs/research/2017/07/predictive-analytics-bus-bunching/   Problem Posing Sample Prompt:   What do you wonder about? From the list of wonders, how can we use math to make a decision? How can math serve our needs?             What do you notice? What do you wonder? What is interesting or important about this situation? Who cares …

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