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New Car Tips
Sports cars are designed to accelerate quickly and go fast around curves. SUV’s are designed to have a large capacity and travel in rough terrain. But why is it, exactly, that a sports car can make a turn at a speed that will cause an SUV to roll over?
| Subject: Algebra Topics: Patterns and Functions Grades: 7 - 12 Concepts: - Independent and dependent variables - Slope - Direct variation (optional) Knowledge and Skills: - Knows that forces have magnitudes and directions - Knows that a force can be resolved into two mutually perpendicular forces (optional) |
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Algebra in the Real World Movie:
Creating Cars
Your students like to ride in them, plan to drive one and hope to own one, but do they know they could also have a job designing cars? Inspire them by taking them inside Ford Motor Company to see how designers and engineers use math to steer the direction of their concept cars.
Running time 5:00 minutes.
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