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Pairing Figure Skating and Mathematics

Vol.2 No.3

Year : 2013

Issue : Jul-Sep

Title : Pairing Figure Skating and Mathematics

Author Name : Diana Cheng, Tetyana Berezovski

Synopsis :

In light of the Winter Olympic Games, a modeling problem is presented in the context of pair’s figure skating. Prospective and in-service high school teachers used related rates to solve the problem that involved differentiating the Pythagorean theorem and a trigonometric equation. Student work is analyzed and discussed.


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