Sunday, November 29, 2015

Finding Heights of Objects Using Similarity

Finding Heights of Objects Using Similarity

Work for the Problem
Pictures of us Collecting Data :

In this activity, we used a meter stick to find the length of a tall pole using shadows. To do this, we collected the length of the meter stick, shadow of the meter stick, and the shadow of the pole. My math working above shows how we used proportions to find the length of the tall pole. 

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