Marbles Slide Challenge 1

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Marbles slide challenge 1.

Students will test their ideas by launching the marbles and will have a chance to revise before trying the next challenge. This could be creative mathematically or artistically. Setting up visual model i learned from experience that many students skim the percentages and start randomly placing marbles. The kids loved it.

1 2 points if they have a particularly creative solution. In this delightful and challenging activity students will transform parabolas so that the marbles go through the stars. Great set up in low entry point and working its way up to attainable challenge problem. 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. Marble slow race gravity challenge for lakes magnet school. Almost 1 min 4 seconds. 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.

In this delightful and challenging activity students will transform lines so that the marbles go through the stars. 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. We start challenge 1 together. Teams of 3 or 4 participants design and build a marble run that keeps a marble rolling for the longest time.

Longest time before marble hits the ground. I did marble slides with exponentials in my class. 2 extra points if they use only 1 equation. Before students are let loose to work at their own pace or with a partner i ll point out 4 features.

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. Love the success feedback on each slide. Enjoy the videos and music you love upload original content and share it all with friends family and the world on youtube. 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.

Some got 1 2x when trying to type 1 2x and a i showed some how to press arrow right after the fraction. It s the only challenge worked on as a whole group. Give teams 5 minutes to plan their marble run.