Launching Water Rockets

Posted on May 19, 2015 by Aaron Wolf

We launched water rockets today to finish our Rocket Project. It was a lot of fun. The rockets went way higher than I had anticipated!!!

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Rocket Project

Posted on May 12, 2015 by Aaron Wolf

Extra credit opportunity!!! Our final project will be to launch rockets. You need to devise a way to measure how high the rocket goes, but you need to follow these rules:

You cannot attach anything to the rocket
The launchpad is 16 feet from the launch button
All mathematics must be correct
You can use whatever mathematics you want
Work in groups no larger than 3

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Launching Rockets 2014

Posted on May 5, 2015 by Aaron Wolf

We launched rockets and measured how high they went using trig, but sometimes they just went too high to see.

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Trig — Why is this cool?

Posted on May 4, 2015 by Aaron Wolf

If you’re reading this and you’re a mathematician you may not think this is very profound. This is just a little idea I had as I was thinking about the application of the unit circle before moving on with my students to graphing sine waves and other trig functions.

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Say you’re on a Ferris Wheel at the county fair, and let’s superimpose the Ferris Wheel onto the unit circle. It’s easy to know when you’re all the way at the top of the Ferris Wheel ( $90^\circ$ ) and when you’re all the way at the bottom ( $270^\circ$ ). Halfway is also pretty easy because it’s when you’re all the way to the sides( $0^\circ$ and $180^\circ$ ).

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Trig Test

Posted on April 24, 2015 by Aaron Wolf

Pre-calulus students,

There will be a test on Trigonometry Wednesday, April 29th. We will review on Monday and Tuesday. It will cover general angles, radians, evaluating trig functions, and the unit circle.

Working on Trig

Posted on April 15, 2015 by Aaron Wolf

We’ve been working on trig for the last few weeks. The students have been doing a great job pulling from all the things we’ve learned since winter break and applying it too the new stuff!

Charlotte loves trig!!!

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