Over Christmas Break, nosotros were lucky to savour some pretty warm days hither inwards Oklahoma. I spent all of the vacation at my parents' house. I alive close lx miles away from them, in addition to thus I don't e'er learn to run across them every bit oftentimes every bit I would like. I create learn to church building in addition to get got tiffin amongst my parents in addition to sis every Sunday.
We took payoff of a warmer than normal Sat to get got a curt 24-hour interval trip downwardly historic Route 66. We started inwards Tulsa in addition to ended upwards inwards Oklahoma City. As I was looking through the pictures I took that day, I couldn't assistance but run across math inwards in addition to thus many of the pictures.
My students oftentimes debate that math has no house inwards existent life. I would beg to differ. Math is all around us if nosotros get got the fourth dimension to notice.
The Route 66 Bridge inwards Tulsa got me to thinking. What type of piece of job would best model this bridge? Is this a parabola? Or something else?
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| Route 66 Bridge |
In Tulsa, at that topographic point is also a pocket-sized common that has a prepare exhibit. The wheels on the steam engine were HUGE. For reference, I'm 5'7''. Or, 5'6''. I can't really remember.
I tin run across using this every bit a geometry problem. What is the surface area of the wheel? What is the circumference of the wheel?
There was also an Oklahoma shaped bloom bed. Wait. Can you lot telephone telephone it a bloom bed if it doesn't get got flowers inwards it? Rock bed? Well, I'm non quite certain what to telephone telephone this thing. But, my inquiring heed is curious close whether the is really proportional to the province of Oklahoma. Does the rock that the plaque is resting on correspond a county? Is it proportional? What close the star that represents Tulsa? Is it proportional?
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| Oklahoma Flower Bed - Proportional? |
In Sapulpa, at that topographic point is a display featuring a Frankhoma Pottery plate in addition to a giant drinking glass bottle. Frankhoma Pottery is really pop inwards this component subdivision of the country. This also screams proportions to me. How much does the large plate weigh? Could you lot figure it out past times weighing a normal dinner plate? Were the plate in addition to the bottle increased at the same scale?
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| Sapulpa, OK Route 66 Display |
Our adjacent to finally halt was the Round Barn inwards Arcadia, OK. It is the solely circular barn left inwards the province of Oklahoma. It was built inwards 1898! How much pigment would it get got to repaint the Round Barn? The overstep loft is rented out for parties in addition to events. When people are planning weddings, foursquare footage tin last really important. How many foursquare feet would this venue provide? When nosotros were there, at that topographic point was really a marriage ceremony going on upstairs. You could listen the people walking around upstairs.
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| Round Barn - Arcadia, OK |
The showtime flooring of the Round Barn is a gift store in addition to museum. All around the room, at that topographic point are these handmade posters. I took a motion painting of 1 of them. Even though the punchline is at the bottom of the paper, I didn't empathize the joke. This was close three p.m. Around 10 p.m. that night, I was looking through all of the pictures I had taken. I read the joke again, in addition to I finally understood it! It solely took me vii hours...
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| Cemetery Joke Found In Round Barn |
I mean value this finally 1 powerfulness last my favorite math question. POPS is a new(ish) landmark on Route 66. It's component subdivision restaurant. Part pop shop. Part gas station. There is a giant pop bottle statue out inwards front. According to the
POPS website, the giant pop bottle stands 66 feet tall. I approximate that's plumbing equipment since it's on Route 66. It also weighs over iv tons!
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| POPS - Arcadia, OK |
Inside POPS, you lot tin buy over 650 dissimilar kinds of soda pop. They are supposed to get got over lx dissimilar varieties of beginning acquit in addition to over xl dissimilar varieties of cream soda. Here's my math inquiry - if you lot poured every bottle of pop from POPS into the large sculpture (assuming it wouldn't leak out past times some type of magic!), how total would the bottle be?
We offering an Oklahoma tourism shape at my school, in addition to they really stopped at POPS on a champaign trip. Students from that shape could give us data on how many bottles of each flavour of pop are typically on the shelves at POPS. Students could really telephone telephone the store amongst farther questions. How many of each flavour create they typically stock?
Maybe 1 24-hour interval I volition learn to the cry for inwards my pedagogy career that I don't experience in addition to thus constricted past times the curriculum I am supposed to last teaching. There are amazing math problems out at that topographic point inwards the world, only waiting to last solved. Some day, I volition brand fourth dimension for them.
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