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GeoGebra

More Ferris Wheels

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Take a ride on a Ferris wheel. Using sliders to adjust the parameters of a Ferris wheel, pupils investigate the height of a point over time. The interactive traces out the curve on a time-height graph. Learners use what they learned to...
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CK-12 Foundation

Double Angle Identities: Ferris Wheel

For Students 10th - 12th
Use a Ferris wheel to soar to new heights of understanding on double angle identities. Here is an interactive that applies an example of a Ferris wheel to show how doubling the angle does not double the value of a trigonometric ratio....
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CK-12 Foundation

Length of a Chord: Distance Across a Ferris Wheel

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
An interactive presents two friends on a ferris wheel with the task of finding the distance between the them. Pupils create the chord between the two friends and calculate its lengths using trigonometric ratios.
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GeoGebra

Getting on the Right Wavelength

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Predict an equation that waves up and down. Pupils set the height, radius, and period of a Ferris wheel. The learners write a sine equation to match the graph of the height of a point on the wheel as a function of time. Running the...
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Curated OER

Evaluative Reading Comprehension

For Students 4th - 6th
In this reading worksheet, learners answer multiple choice questions about reading lists, classifying, grouping sentences, and more. Students complete 20 problems.
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National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Nctm: Illuminations: Investigating Functions With a Ferris Wheel: D vs. W

For Students 9th - 10th
A web sketchpad activity helps students make sense of relationships between quantities, in this case the way that the distance a car travels around a Ferris wheel covaries with its "width" or horizontal distance from the center of the...
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Physics Aviary

Physics Aviary: Visualizing Sine Curves

For Students 9th - 10th
This program gives students a visual representation of sine curves. The hope is that students can relate properties of the ferris wheel to properties of the sine curve. The height of the center of the ferris wheel is their vertical...

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