Quantitative Reasoning

MATH 135 – Mathematical Modeling of Finances

This course learned how to use mathematical sequences, series, exponential functions and regression modeling to understand elementary personal finance. These topics included interest, loans, profit cost, and revenue.

This class was not my favorite just because I’m someone who likes to just be given formulas and just do math problems not thinking about math terms. Im also not interested in finance at all. the class was also pretty slow for me but that would have been a good thing if I needed more time to process and learn how to do the equations. But a lot of the equations I had learned how to do previously.

For my artifact I included my second Q.R. written project. For this project I had to write a letter to a grandma and help her determine the differences between compounded interest and simple interest. For the first part I had used both of these equations to determine the difference in the amount you would have by the end of the year. The next part I had to calculate how much my “grandma” would earn after putting 100 dollars in a bank for 522 years with a continuous compound interest of 2%.