Park teacher Marshall Gordon has an upcoming article in Teaching Mathematics and its Applications: An International Journal of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications. The article details the experience he had teaching a project-based unit on the mathematics of fountain design. In the process of designing their fountains, students were naturally motivated to explore the different parameters affecting the trajectory of a parabola.
Click the link to read the article: The Mathematics of Fountain Design
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