We created posters based on this word problem about Don Quixote:
Don Quixote, delusional in his desert quest for adventure, spots a group of windmills in the distance. Mistaking them for giant monsters he decides to attack one of them. In an athletic move, he hops off his horse Rocinante and at a height of 3m, grabs hold of an “arm” at the lowest point in its rotation. The diameter of the windmill is 20m and it completes 1 rotation in exactly 12 seconds on a blustery day. Come up with a trigonometric equation to describe Don’s height (m) relative to time (s) – H(t) – and graph it over one full minute while also answering the following questions in complete sentences. Hint: draw a picture of the situation trying to fill in as much information as possible before graphing the sinusoidal wave.
For this PBL Project, we studied the mathematical side of climate change, specifically sea level rise and its effects. Below are the different steps of the process, including two worksheets, a slideshow, and a video presenting said slides.