Math Project

For our experiment we made a zipline. We came up with the idea by thinking how tall something would be an how long in order to get the correct amount of something. We first thought we would make a fish blocker, but that wouldn’t really work. So than we came up with the idea of a zipline. It has a certain height and it has to end at a certain point and the hypotenuse is how much chord the zipline needs. This makes sense because the chord is longer than the start to finish.  This also makes sense because it isn’t are perfect square so we would come out with a number with lots of decimals. Overall this was great project and we learned a lot about the pythagorean theorem. unnamed-3

Boats

Our boat ended up very good, after all of our modifications. We did not plan very good to start we started our boat way to early with a bad plan, in the future I would’ve planed more for the structure of our boat. Our boat that started got stuck in our first trial and way way too slow. Our new boat we made lighter and longer styrofoam sides and to add extra speed we added a sail. We learned more about placement of weight and speed of our boat. If I would’ve had to do another boat I would’ve planed better and made a lighter boat with more weight in the back.

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