Audience
Educators
Grade Levels
Grades 5-8, Grades 9-12
Subject
Human Space Exploration, Mathematics, Space Science, Present and Future, Solar System and Planets, Earth's Moon
Type
Lesson Plans / Activities
In this standards-aligned exercise, students use a table to approximate the age of a region of the lunar surface. With this exercise, students will:
- Find the area of a triangular region of the lunar surface.
- Calculate the ratio of the number of craters in the triangular region to the region’s area.
- Determine the approximate age of this region by using a table correlating number of craters per square kilometer to the age of the lunar surface.
Common Core: 6.GA.1, 6.RP.A.3
Launch Into Math – Exercise 5: Area and Frequency
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