According to Stalnaker, Sellers released the ball 130 feet above the 10-foot rim and the basket was set up approximately 150 to 180 feet from the base of the monument. Thus some simple algebra tells us the ball traveled somewhere between 198 and 222 feet between Sellers' hand and the rim.
Use this video and the video at http://bit.ly/996T5
Give students the measurements for the ball's initial height above the rim and the horizontal distance from the rim (these are given on the websites...make sure to convert the units on the page that I provided a link to). Use that info to calculate the hypotenuse to answer the question of "Which one of these was really the world's farthest basketball shot?"
This site is good for printing off drill sheets for improving computational fluency. Contains sheets for fractions, decimals, basic multiplication/division facts, etc. The site claims to have 6000+ drill sheets and they are free!
This page has a link to resources for all middle and high school math courses in Henrico County School District. The Algebra 1 course has great resources.
This web page contains worksheets for basic math practice. It includes multiplication/division/addition/subtraction worksheets in problem search (like word search) and math maze form in addition to drill sheets
Students will investigate the input/output model for building function tables. Then they will connect tables, graphs, function rules, and equations in one variable. Finally, they will work backwards to determine function rules for given data sets or graphs.
This lesson is designed to introduce students to the idea of functions composed of two operations, with specific attention to linear functions and their representations as rules and data tables, including the mathematical notions of independent and dependent variables. Includes input/output table activity.
Participants review carefully the Pythagorean theorem, prove it
geometrically and algebraically, and use it to solve real-world problems.
Participants focus on the connection between the Pythagorean theorem
and the distance formula, and use the distance formula to calculate
distances between points on a square grid and in a coordinate plane.
This site has a service for drawing the graphs of all kinds of functions . With Archimy, you will draw the graph of any function and form, just use your imagination. The program must be downloaded and is free.
Play Plinko and develop your knowledge of statistics. Drops balls through a triangular grid of pegs and see the balls random walk through the lattice. Watch the histogram of final positions build up and approach the binomial distribution.