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Launch Into Math – Exercise 4: Maximums, Minimums, and Inequalities

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NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with the Orion spacecraft aboard is seen atop the mobile launcher at Launch 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Artemis I mission is the first integrated test of the agency’s deep space exploration systems: the Space Launch System rocket, Orion spacecraft, and supporting ground systems. The mission is the first in a series of increasingly complex missions to the Moon. Launch of the uncrewed flight test is targeted for no earlier than Sept. 3 at 2:17 p.m. ET. With Artemis missions, NASA will land the first woman and first person of color on the Moon, using innovative technologies to explore more of the lunar surface than ever before.

Audience

Educators

Grade Levels

Grades 5-8, Grades 9-12

Subject

Human Space Exploration, Mathematics, Present and Future

Type

Lesson Plans / Activities

This standards-aligned exercise helps students learn about the range of distances the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket can cover at travel speed.

With this exercise, students will:

  • Calculate the minimum distance the SLS will travel at a given speed and time interval.
  • Calculate the maximum distance the SLS will travel at a given speed and time interval.
  • Write an inequality of the form x > a or x < b to represent the range of distances the SLS travels at a given speed and time interval.

Common Core: 6.EE.B.5, 6.EE.B.8, 6.RP.A.3

Launch Into Math – Exercise 4: Maximums, Minimums, and Inequalities