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=Understanding(s)=
 * Goal || Your task is to set a ticket price and plan an event for the World Wildlife Fund. ||
 * Role || Your job is to create a proposal for a fundraiser that will produce the greatest profit. ||
 * Audience || You need to convince the president of the organization and the board of directors. ||
 * Setting || The challenge involves dealing with a limited budget ($250) planning a fundraiser and finding just the right ticket price to maximize your profits. ||
 * Presentation || Create a podcast that is a voice mail to Judy Jungle explaining your fundraiser including facts about ticket price and maximum profit. The presentation must also contain some sort of visual representation of your fundraiser that gives more details of the math involved. ||
 * Standards || **Product:** Music 5%, Content 35%, Persuasion 15%, Creativity 10%, Group Work 20%, Speech 15% **Presentation:**Graphs and Equations 50%, Fundraising Event 10%, Stays on Topic 10%, Preparedness/Attire 15%, Collaboration with Peers 10%, Speaks Clearly 5% ||

• solving equations can be related to real world situations. • through manipulation, equations can be solved. • problems can be solved and represented in different mediums (symbols, tables, graphs, verbal rules).

=Introduction=

Did you know that every day 100 species go extinct because of tropical deforestation and that 99.9% of species that have lived on Earth at one time or another have gone extinct ([|ecology.com]). Although there are many organizations around the world trying to preserve our planet one of the largest is The World Wildlife Fund. There mission is conservation of forests, animals, rain forests, promoting renewable energy and preserving the planet in general. Their goal is "By 2020 WWF will conserve 19 of the world's most important natural places and significantly change global markets to protect the future of nature" ([|WWF]). In order for WWF to reach it's goal and save the planet they rely heavily on donations and fundraising. =Task=

The World Wildlife Fund is looking to plan an end of the year fundraiser to celebrate the recent Tiger Initiative plan in Thailand. The president of the company, Judy Jungle, wants to make this event the biggest of the year and reap the greatest profit. Your job, as a board member, is to plan this event on a limited budget and show the best ticket price to maximize your profits. You must survey your friends and family about what is the most they would pay for a ticket and use your knowledge about inequalities and quadratics to choose the best ticket price. In order for you to get on the agenda for the next board meeting you need to persuade Judy Jungle with facts and figures that your ticket price is the most profitable. But wait! Judy Jungle is on vacation in the Amazon and doesn't have reliable cell phone service! It is your job to leave her a quick voice mail and describe the big picture of your event. If you persuade her, you will then present at the next board meeting. At the board meeting, if your fundraiser proposal is the best, then not only do you receive recognition at your own event, but you also receive a 10-day trip to an exotic location of your choice. =Conclusion=

You have now completed your goal to propose a fundraising event! You followed the budget and found a very profitable ticket price. I hope you had fun and enjoyed creating a wild event for the World Wildlife Fund. You may not have noticed, but while you were creating this profitable event, you also were computing inequalities and quadratic equations. Inequalities were used to make sure that you stayed under budget and the quadratic equation was used to compute the ticket price that would produce the maximum profit. Great Job! The animals and planet appreciate your work.