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Halloween Pumpkin Drop Calculus Activity
Yeargroups:
5, 6
Date:
Categories:
Leadership in Learning
Subjects:
Mathematics, Physics
Key Skills:
Being Creative, Communicating, Managing Information & Thinking
Keywords:
calculus, maths, Halloween, differentiation, Leaving Cert Ordinary, tracker
Contributor:
Anonymous
Students Dropped Pumpkins from upstairs windows.
Students videoed dropping pumpkins.
Students used Physics Tracker to measure height of pumpkin at different times during their descent
Students used this data in Geogebra to generate a function for height relative to time.
Students then used calculus on this function to approximate acceleration due to gravity.
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