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Re: Parabola's
Posted:
Jul 29, 1999 7:05 PM
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Hi,
My favorite thing to teach is "parabola's" I had students bring water
rockets to school this year and we went outside to launch them. We timed
how long it took them to return and recorded their height using a homeade
clinometer. We "sketched" this onformation on a graph, then applied the
formula to graph it using calculators. This is sort of neat because the
flight path of the rochet models a parabola and often the examples in teh
text have something to do with projectiles. I did this with 9th graders
and it was a bit hard. More success may have been possible with more
advanced students...but we had fun and hopefully learned something.
Susan Boone
Saint Agnes Academy
Houston, TX
sboone@rice.du
On 28 Jul 1999, Anonymous wrote:
> I would like to get real-life interesting and exciting applications
> regarding parabola's. Thanks in advance
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