Screen shot 2012-09-30 at 8.13.17 PM

Screen shot 2012-09-30 at 8.13.17 PM, a photo by jim forde on Flickr.

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Screen shot 2012-09-30 at 8.33.46 PM, a photo by jim forde on Flickr.

Mr. Edelson's Rocketry and Math lesson

Here is an example of an original rocket (in progress)
and a packet which helped to guide the students.

      It was a pleasure to day to visit Mr. Edelson's 8th grade math class at TOR today!  The students were highly engaged in a lesson about designing rockets.  You may ask, "Why are they designing rockets in math class?"  Well, they were using measurement, fractions and were ultimately collecting original data from the designs in order to create a scatter plot. As I understand it, they will be plotting the length of the rocket body tubes vs. the diameter of the fins!  Dave was pretty tricky in sneaking all of that math into such a fun lesson!  :-)  I hope I'll be invited back to see the launches, which I am told require a whole new set of math skills to be utilized!   Keep up the great work !

Here are a couple of more images of the kids at work!

 

Here is an encouraging sign (one of many located all over TOR) that was outside of Dave's classroom.