Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Speed of lightning, roar of thunder.


I have been attempting to tutor students who are working on Calculus.  I found the lesson on speed, velocity, and acceleration very useful.  It is amazing, I took so many courses that were Calculus based, but yet, I remember very little.  Hmmmm . . . maybe I didn't understand Calculus to begin with, that is a bit scary.  

I am excited about the Minecraft ore activity for my lesson plan.  When Sunshine and I collaborated (okay, it was mostly Sunshine), on the activity it was fun.  We learned about emeralds and then we had to duplicate, as close as possible, the conditions that would happen in nature.  This was a little challenging to do in Minecraft, but it is still possible.  Sunshine had great helpers, I could hear them in the background.  I think I am definitely missing something, not having little ones, who are Minecraft gurus, living in my house.  


1 comment:

  1. Underdog!

    You can model these easily within Minecraft: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riemann_sum

    Here's a picture of a sine wave that I just made in the EDMA693 world using WorldEdit (http://wiki.sk89q.com/wiki/WorldEdit/Generation#Arbitrary_shapes): https://www.evernote.com/shard/s12/sh/5c4e7109-0d01-459d-a7f0-b2a23d63d4e6/a5be9f734b80ad94346527ea32c383fc/deep/0/Screenshot%202/26/14,%201:37%20PM.jpg - students can estimate the area (and volume) under the sine wave using blocks.

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