Problem Statement
This problem we had to find out how far we would have to stand the people so that they wouldn’t get hit by the fire works. How high would the fireworks go and where would they land.
The only information that we were given was
Process and solution This problem was given to us at the beginning of the year and we had no idea how to solve it so we went through all the steps of guessing and checking and we set up questions on how to help us when we solve it. Some of the questions that we had were
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To find the vertex you get botjh x intercepts and you subtract them by eachother. With the answer you divide it by 2 and then square it. You then plug that into the equation and solve it.
On the graph the x axis is representing time and not the distance that it was traveling. So we had to get the time that it left the tower to where it landed and when we got that we used it to find the vertex of the parabola. To find the distance that it would travel we hat to use d(t)=92t/tan65 and we had to plug in 92 for (t) because it went 92 feet per second.
Problem Evaluation
This problem was a lot of fun. I liked it but I felt like we could have shortened it and made everything we did relate back to the problem to show us that we were making progress towards finding the solution to that problem. I felt like we practiced a lot of stuff and that did help but it would have been shorter so that we could have finished it faster. But this problem did push my thinking because at first I had no idea what to do but once we worked through it, it helped me figure out what to do.
Self Evaluation
On this problem I feel like I deserve a A because I did try my hardest on everything that I did throughout this problem and even with every group that I was placed with I feel like we did good job working together with all the problems that we were given. Even when there was something that we didn’t know how to do we tried different things so that we can see what is right. I worked really hard on all of the work because I knew that all of the work that we did was going to come back to the fire works problem. I really enjoyed this project and how we really went into each of the topics within the project.
Edits:
Re-organize it to be easier to read
A couple grammar errors
Reflect more on the problem now
Explain the problem statement more
Better pictures
This problem was a lot of fun. I liked it but I felt like we could have shortened it and made everything we did relate back to the problem to show us that we were making progress towards finding the solution to that problem. I felt like we practiced a lot of stuff and that did help but it would have been shorter so that we could have finished it faster. But this problem did push my thinking because at first I had no idea what to do but once we worked through it, it helped me figure out what to do.
Self Evaluation
On this problem I feel like I deserve a A because I did try my hardest on everything that I did throughout this problem and even with every group that I was placed with I feel like we did good job working together with all the problems that we were given. Even when there was something that we didn’t know how to do we tried different things so that we can see what is right. I worked really hard on all of the work because I knew that all of the work that we did was going to come back to the fire works problem. I really enjoyed this project and how we really went into each of the topics within the project.
Edits:
Re-organize it to be easier to read
A couple grammar errors
Reflect more on the problem now
Explain the problem statement more
Better pictures