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Fireworks: The Localized Big Bang
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ORC# 10144
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Resource Type: Content Supports -- Activities and rich problems
Discipline: Mathematics
Grades: Grades 9–12
Professional Commentary: Commercial fireworks must be carefully timed to ignite as intended. The process involves projectile motion that can be modeled with the quadratic function (ignoring air resistance), as found in the study of dynamics in physics: h = –16t2 + v0t + h0....
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Only Graphs, Please!
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ORC# 10145
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Resource Type: Content Supports -- Activities and rich problems
Discipline: Mathematics
Grades: Grades 8–12
Professional Commentary: Students begin by graphing data points presented in unusual formats. They then construct the graph that fits those points. Using a creative technique, they are able to find the function rule that relates the data points even when the function is not a simple linear relationship....
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If They Test Positive, Are They Using Drugs?
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ORC# 10147
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Discipline: Mathematics
Grades: Grades 9–12
Professional Commentary: In this problem, students develop a mathematical model that enables them to determine the fraction of the population that is using performing-enhancing substances based upon the parameters of the testing, parameters of the population, and the fraction of the tests that have positive results. From this, they can help determine whether or not authorities should test...
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Caffeine in the Body: Get the Lead Out
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ORC# 10148
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Discipline: Mathematics
Grades: Grades 9–12
Professional Commentary: Students explore the use of exponential decay models in the context of eliminating caffeine and lead from the body. The problem starts with generalizing the relationship between time and the amount of chemical left in the body to writing an explicit rule and connecting it to the graphical representation....
125
E. coli Bacteria: Can't Live Without Them
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ORC# 10149
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Discipline: Mathematics
Grades: Grades 9–12
Professional Commentary: This problem uses a contextual situation of E. coli bacteria in the stomach....
126
Meadows or Malls?
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ORC# 10150
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Resource Type: Content Supports -- Activities and rich problems
Discipline: Mathematics
Grades: Grades 9–12
Professional Commentary: Land has been donated to River City. Students must decide how to split the land use between development and recreation in a way that will minimize the cost to the city of the necessary improvements, while adhering to restrictions agreed on by the River City Council....
127
Riding a Ferris Wheel Has Its Ups and Downs
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ORC# 10152
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Discipline: Mathematics
Grades: Grades 10–12
Professional Commentary: This problem relates the circular motion of a point on a Ferris wheel to its up-and-down motion relative to the ground. Students can measure the height of a particular point as the Ferris wheel rotates, plot the height versus time, and observe that the graph resembles that of a sine function....
128
When Will We See the Comet Again?
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ORC# 10153
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Resource Type: Content Supports -- Activities and rich problems
Discipline: Mathematics
Grades: Grades 10–12
Professional Commentary: Students investigate the trajectories of comets, which in almost all cases are elliptical. They study what they would need to know to determine the equation of a comet’s orbit or trajectory....
129
Vectors, a Weight, and a Piano
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ORC# 10154
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Discipline: Mathematics
Grades: Grades 10–12
Professional Commentary: Students create a physical model of vector forces using ring stands, spring scales, string, and a weight. They apply the actual forces using the vectors and angles given in the problem....
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Adding Up Reciprocals of Perfect Squares
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ORC# 10155
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Resource Type: Content Supports -- Activities and rich problems
Discipline: Mathematics
Grades: Grades 10–12
Professional Commentary: Using the computational power of your calculator or computer, how might you convince yourself that the sum of the reciprocals of perfect squares, 1/1 + 1/4 + 1/9 + 1/16 + ... is equal to (pi)2/6?...
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