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Texas Instruments: Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: No Fly Zone

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Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson has students calculate the probability that a spider web will catch a fly. The webs are modeled as standard geometric figures (circle, rectangle, triangle), and assumptions are made concerning the size of the fly and how close the fly must be to the web to be "caught." The question than becomes one of geometric probability, which students can easily calculate.

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Classroom Considerations
  • Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)