New on ProfHacker: Motivating Students with Application Projects and Poster Sessions

I have another guest post on ProfHacker today: “Motivating Students with Application Projects and Poster Sessions.”  Several years ago I started having students in my more “applied” math courses complete application projects, giving them a chance to apply the math they learned in the course to a “real world” problem.  This assignment–and the poster session I usually hold to give students a chance to share their work with each other–has been a success for me.  When I’ve told other instructors about it, they’ve usually been interested, so I thought I would share it on ProfHacker.