Marbles Slide Challenge 1

The basic idea is that marbles will fall down from a certain point on a graph and students need to graph equations to help them collect all of the stars on the screen.

Marbles slide challenge 1.

We start challenge 1 together. Enjoy the videos and music you love upload original content and share it all with friends family and the world on youtube. 1 point if their solution is very consistent if you watch a student s solution it might not work perfectly because there is some variation depending on your screen size. Students will test their ideas by launching the marbles and will have a chance to revise before trying the next challenge.

Teams of 3 or 4 participants design and build a marble run that keeps a marble rolling for the longest time. This year i ll be teaching algebra 1 algebra 2 and calculus. In this delightful and challenging activity students will transform parabolas so that the marbles go through the stars. I did marble slides with exponentials in my class.

Each team gets 10 paper tubes 2 cereal boxes 5 cups 1 pair of scissors 1 roll of tape and at least 1 marble. 1 2 points if they have a particularly creative solution. It s the only challenge worked on as a whole group. Love the success feedback on each slide.

In this delightful and challenging activity students will transform lines so that the marbles go through the stars. Marble slow race gravity challenge for lakes magnet school. Before students are let loose to work at their own pace or with a partner i ll point out 4 features. This could be creative mathematically or artistically.

It s interesting how a majority of students who solved this challenge decided to split the pathway of the marbles with an upside down v made of 2 lines. And could help provide some extra challenge but it has far exceed my expectations for what it could be. Students will test their ideas by launching the marbles and will have a chance to revise before trying the next challenge. Introduce the design challenge.

Some got 1 2x when trying to type 1 2x and a i showed some how to press arrow right after the fraction. The kids loved it. Almost 1 min 4 seconds. Some tips you can share.

Setting up visual model i learned from experience that many students skim the percentages and start randomly placing marbles. Great set up in low entry point and working its way up to attainable challenge problem. They had to graph exponentials by hand the night before for homework and struggled so i thought it would be a great opener for the class.