Traffic Project
For this project, Dan allowed us to choose any aspect of a car that involved mathematics, and ask a specific question about that aspect and work on it to answer it. To choose a question, we were introduced to a cycle that would help us through the question asking process. The cycle started with asking a good, specific question, and then researching it on the internet to see if it had already been solved. If it hadn't then you would create a mathematical framework around the problem; followed by actually doing the math and reflecting on the result. This process allowed us to ask a difficult but solvable question, and encouraged us to thoroughly examine it before simply answering it.
When driving to school one day, I was stopped at the light at Elmore's corner. To the right, about 200 feet away, was the corner store. I wondered if it would be faster to turn into the corner store parking lot, turn around an come back and take an immediate right turn to beat the stoplight than it would be to simply wait for the stoplight to change. Here is the poster I created about my experiment:
When driving to school one day, I was stopped at the light at Elmore's corner. To the right, about 200 feet away, was the corner store. I wondered if it would be faster to turn into the corner store parking lot, turn around an come back and take an immediate right turn to beat the stoplight than it would be to simply wait for the stoplight to change. Here is the poster I created about my experiment: