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The word doc attached is a fantastic three-lesson that delves in depth into quadratics using real life data.
Basic synopses:
Students throw a tennis ball in the air and the final goal is to find how high they threw the ball. They will find the equation that models the throw using d=-0.5at-squared +dt +d0 and then find the maximum of the parabola to find the highest distance the ball was thrown.Materials
Copies Tennis Ball Throw activity sheet.
Calculators
Stopwatches (1 per group)
Tennis balls (1 per group)
Metersticks (1 per group)See attachment for entire lesson
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