A Project Fair will be organized for displays and presentations during the last day of class. Details will be discussed later.

Guidelines for Preliminary Proposals:

• Proposal Format: The proposal should be typed (neatly hand written proposals are acceptable).

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• Contents: The content of your proposal should describe, explain or otherwise demonstrate what your project is as you currently envision it. It should also indicate how you will go about completing the project.

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Below are some specific suggestions on features your proposal description might include:
• Title: Include a name( or list of possible names ) for your project.
• Introduction: (Your topic's core idea.) You should explain the idea of your project. Remember that the Introduction is the first place where the reader hears about your idea. You should also explain how the Proposal is organized in the introduction.

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• Form and result: Indicate your vision of the final project's form(s), that is, the appearance of the FINAL PRODUCT. What will your project look like in its final ideal form? Note that all forms must include some written explanatory  component.

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• Variations: (optional) Since this is a preliminary proposal, indicate some of the possible variations of both substance and form. It might be useful to distinguish the ideal from what may be a minimal project in both substance and form, and perhaps to see the project in stages from minimal to ideal, just in case you run into practical or time problems.

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• References and Tools: List references and tools (books, journals, software, people, etc.) that are relevant to your project and that you might use. If you don't have any specific references yet, then indicate the kind of references you might use and where you will find them.

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• Methods- Timeline and Task Delegation: Who will do what? When will they do it? If your projects has definite parts or subdivisions, then indicate target dates for the completion of each stage.

This project is a collective effort and should reflect the work and effort of all. Indicate when ans where you will meet outside of class and how often. When possible, estimate the number of hours you are allocating to each task.

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• Record keeping: Indicate how you will keep track of the progress of your project and the time spent by each individual participant on the project's work.

• "Recognizing Fibonacci in Nature" 
• "Alice in Wonderland" was the subject of the most impressive final project in MA113 at Notre Dame.
• "A Wrinkle in Time" was the most impressive final project for MA195a at Yale.