Thursday, July 17, 2008

A Real Learning Curve: Catapults Demonstrate the Quadratic Equation

Published on Edutopia.org on July 16, 2008.

http://www.edutopia.org/impact-academy-catapults-quadratic-equation

My friend Manny Medina's a rock star math teacher. In this piece, I write about visiting his class when they present learning about quadratic equations (yawn) through catapults (yipee!).