Investigating Functions with a Ferris Wheel. Part 2: Exploring Distance and Height

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In Investigating Functions with a Ferris Wheel: Part 1 I shared two Web Interactives. Here are some tips to for using the Ferris Wheel Distance-Height Interactive with students. Explore changing distance and height: Ferris wheel animation Click Hide Height, Hide Distance, Hide Point, and Hide Trace. Press Animate Point. Questions for students: For a car beginning at start and moving once around the wheel, …

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Investigating Functions with a Ferris Wheel: Part 1

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Investigating Functions With A Ferris Wheel coauthored with Peter Hornbein (@phornbein1) and Sumbal Azeem, appeared in the December 2016/January 2017 issue of NCTM’s Mathematics Teacher journal. This winter, Max Ray-Riek (@maxmathforum) and Annie Fetter (@MFAnnie) converted my Geometer’s Sketchpad sketches into Web Sketchpad Activities, freely available through NCTM Illuminations: Investigating Functions with a Ferris Wheel: Distance vs. …

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