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A catapult has been used all throughout history as a siege engine. A siege engine is a device that is designed to break or circumvent city walls and other fortifications in siege warfare. A catapult was one of the approximately 10 weapons used in siege warfare during an assault on a castle or fortification. Some other weapons used in both ancient and medieval siege warfare included the well known trebuchet, the classic battering ram, and the siege tower. All of these devices and their relatives were used both in ancient and medieval times in large numbers, and to their users utter enjoyment, and they remained effective for ages, despite an opponent's usually inefficient ways of trying to impede the seige weapons

This catapult project exemplifies and strengthened my current knowledge of parabolas that we have learned during class. Using our skills, my group - Katrina, Brandon, Michelle, and I - created an interesting catapult which would thrust a ping pong ball across creating an upside down “U” shape, also known as a parabola. During our time as a group, we learned to create our own equation, create a graph and table, but also learn from our mistakes by trying to make the ping pong’s “journey” consistent. Not only this, but we worked together as a team to get this task done.

The catapult is a machine that launches an object into the air by using sudden tension. When people launched catapults, the object that was launched forms a parabola to hit the target otherwise known as a projectile. There are forces that act upon the object such as gravity and initial velocity. To calculate where the object lands, people use the vertex form and the quadratic formula. The vertex form is y = a(x – h)2 + k in which a is equal to the slope of the parabola, h is equal to half of the x value and k is equal to the y value of the maximum point. Also, people can find the farthest distance where an object could land by using the quadratic formula. Therefore, vertex form and quadratic formula are used to determine the path of the catapult’s

1. Six Sigma is a management philosophy that sets objectives, collects data and analyzes results as a way to remove wasted expenses from its processes and help reduce the number of defective products produced. Six Sigma uses quality measures to strive for near perfection by eliminating errors and variables.

On the teacher’s command, students will form a plan and race to find the combination of coins needed to reach the total amount

Felkins used positive reinforcement and rewarded the students with playing a spelling game after lunch. Ms. Felkins used their spelling list and gave a student a word, they would say the first letter and then it would go around the circle. Any student who missed a letter was out and the last person standing got three marbles. She did another round and had the students practice opened and closed syllables. The students loved the activity and had fun competing to stay in the game the longest. Midway through the game Ms. Felkins had to remind the students to have a happy heart when they got out or they would have to stop the game. The students had their assigned job period. During this time the students worked on their chapter summary, Lexia (a math program on the computer) and open and short write word study. They complete these tasks independently for about an hour. Ms. Felkins gave sub directions for the following day. She told the students her expectations for them and what they would be completing with the substitute. She used positive reinforcement and told the students if all of them behaved, they would get free time on Monday. She used negative reinforcement and told them if any of the students get a bad report, the consequence will be having an extra worksheet while the other students have free time. All the students were receptive and encouraging each other to behave so they could have free time. Lastly, Ms.

This can give the teacher other ideas of games that can be incorporated with math. Give a SURVEY and ask how familiar they are with their favorite game(s) and then ask them students to describe their strategy while playing. This will help the teacher understand the students of INTEREST and READINESS to analyze game strategies using mathematics. Students then will pick whatever game INTERESTS them the day of the lesson.

Students will try and play each game listed and tally if they won or lost the game twelve times per game. The games will include predicting heads or tails, and then flipping a coin, The birthday game (how likely a wheel with all of the month of the year will land on your birthday month), and a dice game (a student will predict what the die will land on, and then throws the die and records if they are right). Students will also play a game that is rigged that has zero odds of winning. The goal of the game will be to pull a yellow block from a bag that only contains green, blue, and red blocks. I will include the rigged game to show students what an unfair game looks like, and give them a real-life experience of an event that has zero odds. Once completed students will compare their scores on how often they won on each

Unfortunately, a tense schooling environment and tightened curriculum expectations have led to Michael’s idea being turned away from regular classroom implementation. Michael has, however, received an invitation for his team’s game to be introduced and used in higher end pre-ap courses. On the advice of multiple teachers and administrators, Michael has decided to re-work the product and test it through pre-ap courses before trying to reapply it for regular classrooms.

This artifact is a fun game I created to help my students study. It has 5 subjects and each subject has five questions, each of the questions are worth a certain amount of points. Whichever team answers the most questions right and has the highest score at the end will win something. I created this game using a PowerPoint template I got off of the internet and I came up with a handful of questions. I would use a project like this for several occaisons helping study for quizzes, tests and end of year exams. I met the above standard by evaluateing and reflecting on current research and professional practice on a regular basis to make effective use of existing and emerging digital tools and resources in support of student

I would like to first familiarize my fellow classmate with some thoughts and ideas that Six Sigma uses. Six Sigma thoughts and ideas are used within my workplace to improve processes that will indefinitely improve the output or quality of healthcare for children that may suffer from debilitating diseases or life altering diagnoses. As Six Sigma suggests “There are many industries that can use the ANOVA test to identify issues or variances between samples” (2010).  The ANOVA is a suitable statistical technique for testing many items within the healthcare field. An extremely important study by the name of the Framingham Heart Study in 1948 analyzed participants blood pressure and cholesterol levels. The clinical trials compared two separate groups with different variables in hopes of developing standards to monitor people well being.

When I asked the teacher about this she said it was to keep all of the groups thinking and answering questions, instead of just one group doing all of the work. The students were then assessed on their ability to answer the Jeopardy questions. The teacher could then gage the students understanding of the information that was going to be on their test and also reteach anything she felt they needed to recover. The class gets told by the teacher when they are being too loud or rowdy and the teacher threatens to not allow them to continue playing the game. She says that the students can just be all on their own for the test and the class can sit in silence the rest of the period. This is also how she dealt with off-task behavior. She told the students that she was doing them a favor by helping them study for the test, but they can move on and not review what is on the test. The students get one warning during the class and after that warning if the students are acting up again they get a lunch detention. Finally if the problem does not stop then the student gets sent to the hallway. For the game there are six rows of topics that the students covered during the lessons that

These kids would ask if you had stickers to give them or they would not play the game you had. Some kids liked playing the game without any prizes just for the fun of it. A kid gave me a suggestion that next time that I had to bring a wooden one because it was harder to pay with a cardboard.I would be prepared next time for everything that comes my way. I had a student almost faint in my station and I had to stop the game a bit to ask for assistance. She was fine when I went to check on her at the end and her parents were on the way to pick her up what an

Did you know that various types of catapults were used by the Greeks, Romans, and Chinese? We took various different steps to construct our catapult and see how we can improve it. First, the catapult we made was made out of 11 popsicle sticks for the base and construction of the catapult and 26 rubber bands to hold them in place. The model of my catapult collapsed easily and fell apart. I believe that if we put in more time and work into the catapult it would’ve done wonders. Second, our catapult was tested for accuracy but sadly started collapsing downward and was lopsided. The catapult made 30% of the shots we fired into a platform that was 100 centimeters away, it made no shots that were fired into a platform that was 150 centimeters away,

The concept of Six Sigma was developed in the early 1980’s at Motorola Corporation (Harry and Schroeder, 2000). Six Sigma can be defined as a statistical measure of the performance of a process or product (Kumi et. al., 2006). It is used as a quality control mechanism, which seeks to reduce defects or variations in a process to 3.4 per million opportunities thereby optimizing output and increasing customer satisfaction (Sambhe, 2012). Sigma is representing the standard deviation, a unit of measurement that designates the distribution or spread about the mean of a process (Six Sigma Academy, 2002). In addition, the Six Sigma uniquely driven by close understanding of customer needs, disciplined use of fact, data, and statistical analysis, and diligent attention to managing improving, and reinventing business processes (Pande, P., et. al. 2000). The Six Sigma methodology uses statistical tools to identify the factors that matter most for improving the quality of processes and generating bottom-line results. The Six Sigma DMAIC (Define, Measure,