LineUp with Math

LineUp with Math consists of six problem sets. Each set enables participants to explore and apply decision-making and proportional reasoning skills to resolve distance-rate-time conflicts with realist air traffic control scenarios. To test each problem, participants input their answers into the interactive air traffic control (ATC) simulator that represents a controller’s screen. The accompanying workbooks that can be printed or completed online provide strategies and the underlying mathematics skills to optimize solutions.

For each Problem Set, a print-based Student Workbooks provides a structured learning environment. Each Workbook contains paper-and-pencil worksheets that introduce students to pertinent air traffic control concepts as well as problem analysis and solution methods. Participants will apply proportional reasoning to make decisions and resolve conflicts in realistic air traffic control scenarios involving two or more aircraft. The challenge in each problem, is to line aircraft up safely for landing, with proper spacing, at a given intersection of aircraft routes.

Each of the six Problem Sets is accompanied by a facilitator guide that includes an overview, a list of objectives, prerequisites, and materials, a discussion and specification of the relevant ATC simulator problems (or other interactive/multimedia components), a discussion of key points for each simulator problem and each workbook worksheet, the solutions for each simulator problem and the answers to each workbook worksheet. For these worksheets, the title matches the number of the associated simulator problem. Four- and five-plane problems are found in the simulator only and are not supported by the student workbooks.