My Baker's Choice Portfolio
Baker's Choice is a thematic unit based on linear programming. The central problem in the unit is about a girl named Abby who wants to know how many iced and plain cookies to sell in order to make the most profit in her bakery shop. She has many constraints such as cost, oven space, the amount of dough available and the amount of time needed to bake each type of cookie. This problem guides students through discovering what makes a feasible region and how to then use such a region to decide how many of each type of cookie to make in order to make the most money with the given profit on each batch of a dozen cookies.
The unit also takes students through several other problems to help them to think creatively in different ways about linear programming and how it can apply in real life situations. This portfolio is consisting of my work on a few of these problems along with a Problem of the Week, my in class assessment and my own work on the Baker's Choice problem itself. This portfolio is meant to highlight my best work and to show what I have done best throughout the unit.
The unit also takes students through several other problems to help them to think creatively in different ways about linear programming and how it can apply in real life situations. This portfolio is consisting of my work on a few of these problems along with a Problem of the Week, my in class assessment and my own work on the Baker's Choice problem itself. This portfolio is meant to highlight my best work and to show what I have done best throughout the unit.