Pit and pendulum

1. In this project we read the poem by Edgar Allen Poe about a man stuck in a pit with a swinging pendulum above. In this story the man is tied in the bottom of a pit and there is a pendulum above that is around 40 feet tall getting closer to him every time it swings. We then used this to look into different mathematical formulas that we could use to determine whether the man survives or not. We learned about parabolas, data spreads, tables, normal curves ect. In the end we used our  knowledge of these things and made predictions on how long he had to get out and how many swings.

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Shadows unit 

in this unit we  went into depth learning about ways to use geometry and trigonometry. We started the unit with the measuring of real physical shadow, then we moved into angles and what they tell us,we also learned corresponding angles and lines,this lead  us into how we learned trig and inverse trig. personally, I like this unit so far, and think that it has allowed my mathematics ability to grow immensely.