Maxima & Minima

Highlights of the activity

1. This small group activity introduces students to constrained optimization problems.
2. Students work in small groups to optimize a simple function on a given region.
3. The whole class wrap-up discussion emphasizes the importance of the boundary.

Reasons to spend class time on the activity

• Elementary example of constrained optimization.
• Can also be used as a homework problem, so long as constrained optimization is discussed in class (before or afterward).

Reflections

• Reflections from the original implementation.

• Reflections from "official" adapters/adopters.

• Reflections from the general public.

Instructor's Guide

• Wiki version

Student Handouts

mvmaxminhand.pdf