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 * Goal || Students will demonstrate an understanding of how Algebra contains rational exponents in polynomials and expressions and they will be able to use them. ||
 * Role || As a marketer for Apple, you have been asked to graph data and equations to show a better marketing strategy. ||
 * Audience || Your audience is the marketing director for Apple. ||
 * Setting || You are in the present day market, representing Apple. ||
 * Presentation || You will create an iMovie to pitch your marketing idea to the director. You need to produce a business plan with graphs and tables/charts in order to get the marketing director to choose your plan. ||
 * Standards || Presentation Rubric: Posture/Eye Contact 10%, Stays on topic 20%, Preparedness 25%, Enthusiasm 15%, Content 20%, Time-Limit 10%. iMovie Rubric: Concept 25%, Story Board 20%, iMovie Editing 10%, Material Usage 15%, Lighting and Sound 10%, and Work Cited 20%. ||

=Introduction= Symbols and expressions in Algebra can be used for many different things. Now that you have mastered the skills of how to simplify Algebraic equations and how to apply them to everyday tasks in forms of symbols, tables, graphs, and verbal rules, you are able to put those skills to good use. You are able to use different Algebraic terminology, formulas, and other critical details in order to make something creative to show others what you know. By gaining all of this information you have been able to analyze virtually any table, graph or chart that you may encounter. Now that all of this information gathering is behind you, you can have fun and create a product using your imagination.

=Task= Welcome creative business marketers! You have been chosen to create a business plan for the best strategy of marketing in order to earn your annual bonus. The challenge is that there are other competitors. If your marketing strategy does not get chosen you will not get the bonus. As a marketer for Apple, you have been asked to graph data and equations to show a better marketing strategy. The marketing director for Apple will be looking for a great marketing strategy in order to make a decision about continueing on the current marketing path or to change these strategies in order to boost sales. You need to produce a video presentation that includes a business plan with graphs and tables/charts in order to get the marketing director to choose your plan. Good luck!

=Process= 1. //Pick an Apple Product for the business plan// - There are several electronical devices that are out in the market today. Choose one of these [|Apple products] to make the business plan about and be prepared to research this device.

2. //Find research about the Apple Product chosen// - You will need to produce some equations, tables, graphs/charts for this product's marketing information. The research needs to have a variety of different data, such as marketing productivity, in order to produce these types of Algebraic representations. You should be able to make more than one equation, table, graph/chart from the data collected.

3. //iMovie Tutorial// - There is an [|iMovie tutorial] to show you how to use this Movie program. This site will show you ways to use iMovie in ways that you may have not thought of before.

4. //Write a script/storyboard for the iMovie// - Before beginning the process of making the iMovie, after gathering all of the data needed, you will be asked to make a script or storyboard mapping out exactly what is going to be included in the final product.

5. //Apple product data in equations, tables, and charts/graphs// - Now that you know what you are going to talk about, and you have gathered all of the neccessary data about the Apple product, you need to make the equations, tables, and graphs/charts to be included in your presentation. These things can be made using Microsoft Excel or a similar program.

6. //Produce an iMovie about the Apple Product chosen// - This iMovie presentation will include equations, tables, graphs/charts in order to show the Apple Product's past marketing productivity and in order to show the marketing director that the current business plan is a good one or it needs to be changed.

7. //Present iMovie// - Now that all of the iMovie editting is done, you are ready to show the marketing director your business plan.

=Evaluation= Below is the Product and the Presentation Rubrics that will be used for grading your product. ,

=Conclusion= Congratulations! You have done it! The business marketing director has chosen your business plan. You have been selected to recieve your annual bonus. You have successfully convinced the marketing director to choose your business plan because it gives great detail to the Apple product chosen. You have shown the director that there is a creative way to show the productivity of a business using graphs and tables/charts. This means because of your hard work of analyzing a marketing strategy the business is on the right path in order to boost the product's sales. Keep those creativity juices flowing!

=Resources= [|iMovie Tutorial] is helpful when learning about the iMovie program. There are several [|Apple products] to choose from. There are several websites for the definition and details about polynomials, [|1], [|2], [|3], and [|4]. This is a definition of [|Simplify]. This is a definition of [|Expresions]. This is a definition of [|Exponentials]. This is an [|iMovie Student Sample]. This is an [|Excel] Spreadsheet Tutorial [|storyboard or script]