Investigating Functions with a Ferris Wheel: Distance vs. Width
A Web Sketchpad activity helps students make sense of relationships between quantities, in this case the way that the distance a car travels around a Ferris wheel covaries with its "width" or horizontal distance from the center of the Ferris wheel
Investigating Functions with a Ferris Wheel: Distance vs. Height
A Web Sketchpad activity helps students make sense of relationships between quantities, in this case the way that the distance a car travels around a Ferris wheel covaries with its height.
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Pre-K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
Need a pentagonal pyramid that's six inches tall? Or a number line that goes from ‑18 to 32 by 5's? You can create all those things and more! Place the images you want, then export it as a PDF or as a JPG image.
9-12
Explore the amplitude, period, and phase shift by
examining the graphs of various trigonometric functions.
