Lesson Plan

Space Shuttle's Heat Shield Problem

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High schoolers participate in a role-play activity to determine how to replace heat shields on the space shuttle using polar coordinates.

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Concepts
polar form, complex plane, polar coordinates, polygons, 2-d shapes, 2-d
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Additional Tags
polar coordinates, polygons, complex plane, polar form, rectangular form, math
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Resource Details
Grade
9th - 12th
Subjects
Math
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Resource Type
Lesson Plans
Audience
For Teacher Use
Instructional Strategy
Simulation
Year
2000
Usage Permissions
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