Activity Overview
Your fourth mission is to draw circles using the robot. Sounds simple enough, but you'll need to draw three different diameter circles using three different wheel motions. Good Luck.
Before the Activity
Download the attached program CIRCLE or to write the program for the robot on your TI-83+ (see PROGRAMMING INSTRUCTIONS on page 6 of the attached PDF.
Purchase the Norland Calculator Robot at: www.smallrobot.com/scimath
During the Activity
Please see the attached PDF for more details for this activity.
After the Activity
Review student results:
As a class, discuss questions that appeared to be more challenging
Re-teach concepts as necessary