Connections to Linear Functions
Sep 25th, 2011 by corricelli
Hello,
Please use this page to post connections to the real world that you have stumbled upon…
Fun applications?
Cool journal article?
Interesting sports connection?
Music? Hobby? You choose!
If it relevant to this quarter’s material, use this site to connect and help a teammate understand!
Happy Connecting,
Mrs. Corricelli
i dont really get what your asking!.
DB – I am not sure I understand what you are posting to; What have you tried? What is this regarding?
Thank you,
Mrs. Corricelli
sometimes in sports we set up cones in a linear line and we have to go over them !
Alexis,
Excellent!
Can you calc the slope? Can you do an (unofficial) study as to the number of minutes practicing and the number of cones hit?
All fun things to do!
Thanks,
Mrs. Corricelli
Sometimes in skateboarding we use cones to do tricks over, and you have to have enough speed and height to make it over.
Tyler, can you find a site with a linear equation and/or a set of data that we could use in class?
Is there a linear relationship between speed and height? Just curious…
Mrs. Corricelli
using th ti calculator is helping me get preapared how to use it in the psat
Wonderful!
when i going shooping they ususallly have the clothes or the items catogerize in a line and color organized also
There are many peppers of the world. From bell pepper to ghost chili the heat of the peppers climb 0 to 1,000,000. The heat of the pepper depends on the amount of capasaicin (a chemical produced by peppers; similar to the pain of a spider bite but without the cellular damage) Capasaicin is almost like an illusive pain. The amount of capasaicin would be the independent variable, while the heat of the peppers is the dependent. (to determine the heat of a pepper you need to dilute with water.) so it would be:
drops/grams
DROPS OF WATER= m(CAPASAICIN) + b
ex: (estimation)
1,000,000 = m(5) +b and 500,000= m(2.5) =b
1,000,000-500,000/5-2.5=500,000/2.5= 200,000=m
500,000=200,000(2.5) + b (solve for b)
500,000= 500,000
b= 0
y-intercept is 0. Guess what pepper it starts at? (hint: back to second sentence)
Brian!!!
I love this!
Thanks so much for posting this. What is the hottest pepper?
Again, thanks!
Mrs. Corricelli
p.s. w= water. c= capasaicin. w(c)= 200,000(c)+0 <- the equation to determine the heat of a pepper.
Brian,
I do not understand what c stands for…. Its definitely linear though, great!
Mrs. Corricelli
I dance, and in dance we have to do turns across the floor making a straight line. No matter what kind of turn it is you need to keep a constant speed. This is like a slope and a linear line it has a constant speed.
I found linear functions to be difficult to learn when it was first introduced. Now i understand it a lot more relating it to medicine and sports that happen every day in my life made it easy to understand. Now every time there is a problem i just think how it relates to me some how.
Yes! Yes! Yes! (and more Yes!, I hope) as we go through this year!
Great post, Danielle!
Sincerely,
Mrs. Corricelli
the hottest pepper would be the ghost chilli.
linear functions make alot more sense to me now especially after todays class and i think im ready for the quiz tomorrow!