from an MAA blog posting: Service-Learning and Making a Difference, a guest post by Karl-Dieter Crisman, Friday, July 11, 2014. Some math examples he is familiar with.
+Analyzing energy use and sustainability practices on campus (quantitative reasoning)
+Assessing volunteer versus state-provided aid in a local fire (intro statistics)
+Helping local American Diabetes Association focus fundraising (finite math)
+Tutoring high school precalculus students (calculus)
+Creating math fun fair games (upper-level math and math ed)
+Designing a new layout for a food pantry (upper-level modeling)
+Providing feedback on cash flow for a local non-profit (upper-level modeling)
+Analyzing (scrubbed) freshman orientation data (upper-level math/stats)
+Running a math camp for middle-schoolers (graduate students)
see the posting at:
http://maamathedmatters.blogspot.com/2014/07/service-learning-and-making-difference.html