Lesson 27 Accelerating the acceleration
Lesson plan
Piagetian Level | ||
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3 B Mature Formal |
![]() ‘If the grain mountain really is the same pattern as explosions and cell growth, then there must be something else that stops the process’ |
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‘if you look at the increase in change in height for the rocket, you can see that the acceleration is constant (2 metres more for each second)’ | ‘if the increase of the increase is increasing ALSO at a constant rate then you have a much more powerful function’ | |
3A Early Formal |
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‘speed of balloon is constant, but the rocket is accelerating’ | Finds the square for 1000 tonnes by continuing the table | |
2B* Concrete Generalisation |
‘the rocket keeps on speeding up’ | |
2B Mature concrete |
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Middle concrete |
Episode 1 Familiar speed functions |
Episode 2 The doubling function |