Today, Cress and Little (Mr. Kelly and his BFF) entertained us with a video of extreme sports, which was really them just shooting a basketball and trying to get it in the hoop and wearing crazy clothes. Our job was to find out if the ball was going to go into the hoop so we took the picture they provided for us of the ball at different heights on it's travel to the hoop, and inserted it into GeoGebra. I used the base of the ball to make the points, and then proceeded to put those points in a chart, made a list of the points, and then let GeoGebra do the math for me and come up with a function for me, it's depicted above but the function is f(x)=0.08x^2+1.29x+3.86. So, judging from the picture, and the line running into the backboard, I'm going to make an educated guess that the ball did not go into the hoop. Thanks to Cress and Little for coming up with these interesting activities for us and applying them to math! We really appreciate it! :)
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April 2015
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