Grant, a student of mine, wrote a physics lab for his final project. He set up a pendulum with 2 choices of arm length and asked the rest of the class 1) for an object swinging on the end of the arm, when during the period is acceleration greatest? and 2) which would swing with [...]
Archive for December, 2008
This is a story from my programming classes. Thanks to a lucky Google hit, I found Project Euler. The site has 200+ math problems disguised as programming challenges! The cool part is that these problems are developing the kids’ analytical skills and they don’t even realize it (I’m sneaky that way!). I asked the middle [...]
