Audience
Educators
Grade Levels
Grades 9-12
Subject
Mathematics, Problem Solving
Type
Lesson Plans / Activities, Websites
Exploring Space Through Math allows students to examine how the high-accuracy radar at NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center track and relay the position of the International Space Station and other research vehicles. Students will use spherical coordinates and vector addition to find the position of a space shuttle in orbit.
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