Marbles Slide Challenge 1

We start challenge 1 together.

Marbles slide challenge 1.

Introduce the design challenge. 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. This could be creative mathematically or artistically.

Great set up in low entry point and working its way up to attainable challenge problem. 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. I did marble slides with exponentials in my class. Teams of 3 or 4 participants design and build a marble run that keeps a marble rolling for the longest time.

Give teams 5 minutes to plan their marble run. Students will test their ideas by launching the marbles and will have a chance to revise before trying the next challenge. The kids loved it. In this delightful and challenging activity students will transform parabolas so that the marbles go through the stars.

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. Almost 1 min 4 seconds. Before students are let loose to work at their own pace or with a partner i ll point out 4 features. And could help provide some extra challenge but it has far exceed my expectations for what it could be.

Setting up visual model i learned from experience that many students skim the percentages and start randomly placing marbles. Longest time before marble hits the ground. This year i ll be teaching algebra 1 algebra 2 and calculus. In this delightful and challenging activity students will transform lines so that the marbles go through the stars.

It s the only challenge worked on as a whole group. Students will test their ideas by launching the marbles and will have a chance to revise before trying the next challenge. Each team gets 10 paper tubes 2 cereal boxes 5 cups 1 pair of scissors 1 roll of tape and at least 1 marble. 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 tips you can share. 1 2 points if they have a particularly creative solution. 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.