How+High+Can+You+Fly?

= Activity 3: How High Can You Fly?-Math Connection (15 min./Teresa Bruin) = == Task 1: Use your iPod Touch Calculator (in the Utilities folder on the home screen of your iPod), Conversion App and Math Tasks App as needed to help figure out one or both of the following two math problems. After you have your answers, type them on the Notes app and email your answers to: tbruin@graniteschools.org ==


 * == Story Problem 1: Five friends are flying their kites. The heights of their kites are 23 yards, 37 yards, 41 yards, 47 yards and 52 yards. What is the average flying height of the kites? Also, if the heights of the kites were combined, what would be their total height in inches?==


 * == Story Problem 2: Sadie's Kite is a diamond (rhombus) shaped kite, which could also be thought of as "two triangles joined together at their bases." The horizontal stick that separates the two triangles is 36 inches wide. The vertical stick on the kite is 42 inches long and crosses the horizontal stick at 12 inches. What is the area of the kite in square inches?==

== Task 2: Using your Notes app, write one story problem for the class to solve. Try to make it challenging enough that it would require the use of one or more of the same apps used in the previous task. Email your story problem to tbruin@graniteschools.org. Please include this in the subject line of your email: "My Story Problem". I will randomly select one or two problems from those emailed to me to display for the class to solve.==


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