Check out Summer Math 2003! A place where students actually enjoyed math!
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SummerMath -> Schools -> Champaign Central
Champaign Central High School

Teacher: Dan Reid
Position: science teacher at Champaign Central H.S.

Topics covered last summer in the Math camp included:

  1. Measuring distances/heights, velocities, and accelerations of projectiles dropped or thrown straight up in the air.
  2. Building and launching model rockets.
  3. Measuring density of various objects.
  4. Measuring the thickness of aluminum foil from density information.
  5. Building paper/tape boats to hold a maximum # of pennies using the concepts of buoyancy and density to improve the design.