Monday 7 December 2020

Calculating the height of the basketball goal

 Bilingual students of 1º BACHA went to the basketball court abd measured the height of the goal using different  methods:

  • Shadows and similarity
  • Mirrors and similarity
  • Theodolite and trigonometry
They also need a tape measure and a piece of chalk

They worked in 2 groups and the results were :
  1. Group one: mean of the results 3,94 m
  2. Group two: mean of the results 4,04 m
Surfing the Internet we found that the height of the top of the goal (it was the height we measured) is 3,95 m. So,our results are very accurate. Students realized that in their experiment the most accurate form was tu use shadows (mybe because our theodolites weren't very good)





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