What's on "Your" Radar Screen? Distance-Rate-Time Problems from NASA

This article features NASA's FlyBy Math, a series of six standards-based distance-rate-time investigations in air traffic control. Sixth-grade students--acting as pilots, air traffic controllers, and NASA scientists--conduct an experiment and then use multiple mathematical representations to an...

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Published in:Mathematics teaching in the middle school 2006-08, Vol.12 (1), p.6-12
Main Authors: CONDON, GREGORY W., LANDESMAN, MIRIAM F., CALASANZ-KAISER, AGNES
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Air traffic control
Air Transportation
Aircraft
Algebra
Aviation Technology
Computation
Experiments
Geometric planes
Grade 6
Graph theory
Investigations
Jet aircraft
Line graphs
Mathematical problems
Mathematics
Mathematics Education
Problem Solving
Speed
Teaching Methods
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Summary:This article features NASA's FlyBy Math, a series of six standards-based distance-rate-time investigations in air traffic control. Sixth-grade students--acting as pilots, air traffic controllers, and NASA scientists--conduct an experiment and then use multiple mathematical representations to analyze and solve a problem involving two planes flying on intersecting routes. (Contains 12 figures.)
ISSN:1072-0839
2328-5486
DOI:10.5951/MTMS.12.1.0006