Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson has students set up a search region for a yacht that sank into the ocean. Using cylindrical coordinates and a little trigonometry, students are able to block off a certain portion of the ocean floor in which the yacht is probably located. This lesson makes extensive use of graphing calculators for their table functions, reiterative processes, and ability to handle trigonometry and storing values into variables.

Concepts

law of cosines

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Additional Tags

analytic geometry, applications, cylindrical coordinates, numb3rs, numb3rs: where's cheetah, ti, texas instruments

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Classroom Considerations

• Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)