Factorial pizzeriaIn Probability and Statistics, we did a mini-project on factorials. The assignment was to create a menu for a shop that sold two different items: one item where order doesn't matter (like pizza and its toppings), and one item where it does (like lasagna and its layers). We had to find the number of possibilities for combinations (where order doesn't matter) and permutations (where order does matter). This was done using factorial formulas. We had to come up with our own ingredients and layers for each item, and come up with "specials", or the factorials, on our own.
This project is a good example of the 21st Century Skill Thinking and Problem-Solving Skills. For this project, we had to first understand factorials, combinations, and permutations before we could get started on creating the menu. Creating the menu was entirely a creative process as we weren't confined to just pizza and lasagna, but this meant we had to figure out our ingredients all by ourselves. We also had to come up with different factorials to use to show our possible outcomes with our creative menus and ingredients. This project wasn't really on the difficult side since the math could easily be done using a calculator and it was a fun last project to wrap up first quarter. We had worked individually creating menus. There's nothing in particular I'd change about what I did for my project. I think I did well on mine. The most difficult thing was coming up with a unique name for the shop and the specials. |
I, unfortunately, don't have an image for this project as I forgot to take a picture of it before discarding it.
Instead, I have a photo of an assignment that looks almost identical to what the project is about, only this photo gives us the ingredients whereas we had to come up with our own. |