Proportionality: Modeling the Future Proportionality: The X-Plane Generation

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Math Concepts

1. Proportionality: Modeling the Future
Students learn why scaling and proportion are important in the design of small, aircraft transportation systems. Mathematical patterns described through practical applications such as the growth of transportation, the Golden Ratio, and the Fibonacci sequence

2. Proportionality: The X-Plane Generation
Students meet NASA researchers and other professional who (a) describe the relationship between force, energy, and motion, (b) discuss how NASA's experimental X-plane is being tested to make space travel more reliable, (c) show students how proportionality and ratios are used to make scale models of spacecraft like the X-33, and (d) describe how scale models are more manageable than full-scale models when it comes to testing and retesting designs.

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