Audience
Educators
Grade Levels
Grades 5-8, Grades 9-12
Subject
Human Space Exploration, Mathematics, Present and Future, Geometry
Type
Lesson Plans / Activities
In this standards-aligned exercise, students will find the distance that a Lunar Terrain Vehicle will travel following a route plotted on a two-dimensional coordinate plane.
With this exercise, students will:
- Calculate the distance between two points using the application of the Pythagorean Theorem.
- Determine whether the Lunar Terrain Vehicle will be able to complete its route on a single charge.
Common Core: 6.G.A.3, 8.G.B.8
Launch Into Math – Exercise 8: Coordinate Planes
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