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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Transplant_1]What kind of paper is required for IB math?  3000-5000 words is more than an essay, that's a 14-ish page paper.[/quote]

It’s on a topic of their choice, related to the course and can be research or an experiment where they analyze the data.  I’m an IB math teacher and it’s one of the reasons my own children attend an AP school.  It’s good to write long papers but I don’t like how they are required in every IB class.  This would have turned me off to math as a kid.  [/quote]
Agree, [b]having a paper for math is odd.[/b] What types of things do kids do that utilize precalculus or calculus? Would it be writing up physics experiments describing the motion of balls or pendulums? [/quote]

Scientists often have to write papers and starting in high school is a great place to begin to learn.

My two kids both wrote papers focusing on statistics and both involved baseball.  Older one graduated and he told me his topic was "Is there any correlation between a Minor League team's success and the Major League Team's success four years later?"  My younger one, who is currently writing his paper is still asleep but his also has something to do with baseball and statistics.[/quote]

I’m one of the math teachers.  A lot of my students use statistics similar to these examples.  It’s common to use their sport - a kick of a soccer ball, basketball shot, something with track or swim times.  These either collect their own data or do research like this poster described.  [/quote]

Sounds like a complete waste of time and energy.[/quote]

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