Day 09 - Introduction to Mathematical Models

I'm a little tired of boring teacher-centred lessons now, aren't you? So today we did Ball Bounce!

This activity was right before the Easter weekend and students had a lot of fun:

In the first bit, students were doing the measurements and had a couple strategies. One group took a video and tried to get the measurements that way, and others estimated just by watching. Once the measurements were done, all students did some good math:

For a day before a long weekend, I got a lot out of them. Marks for this were really good, so I was happy with the activity and the math that came with it.