Casino Education

Roller Coaster by John Neral

Given an animated file, students will be able to fit a linear equation to a roller coaster car moving along its track. Given their knowledge of linear functions, students will calculate the distance moved and its slope.

Lesson Objectives:


• - Understand relations and functions and select, convert flexibly among, and use various representations for them.
• - Analyze functions of one variable by investigating rates of change, intercepts, zeros, asymptotes, and local and global behavior.