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Kevin Driscoll
(Los Angeles - United States)I taught Computer Science and Mathematics from 2004-2007 at Prospect Hill Academy Charter School in Cambridge, MA. Since then, I completed a Master's degree in Comparative Media Studies at MIT and am now a PhD candidate in Communication at University of ...
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- From: San Diego Area Knowledge Exchange for Developmental Math (SAKE)
- Contributed By: SAKE Owner SAKE Owner
2 days. Hands-on activity using the actual path of light through your container of water. Students compute the speed of light in water and develop an understanding of why light reflects back if below a critical angle. It provides an opportunity to build a fairly complicated function from simpler ones in a physical setting, and then investigate the function to learn something about the real world. It involves investigation of function with a parameter. This unit is appropriate for a precalculus course in a unit on functions or or in a unit on functions involving radicals. It has also been used in elementary calculus courses as a conceptual introduction to optimization.
