List all the Urls you used to find the answers to these questions.  Try doing an internet search using Metacrawler, Dogpile, or Excite. Be sure to put your answer and the URL's used in each response box.

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1.     Find out who developed the distance formula and tell three things about his life.  Cp.1

 

 

 

 

 

2.     About how many school busses could you line up bumper to bumper around the equator of the Earth? Ch1

 

 

6.     Find out how many gallons of paint it would take to paint the Empire State building red? (including the windows)  About how much would it cost? Be sure to include the paint brand and quality you choose. Ch12

 

 

 

 

7.     I want to connect a wire from the top of the Eiffel tower to a point 500 yds from the center of its base.  How long will the wire need to be.  You will need to use the Pythagorean theorem on this one. Ch9

 

 

 

 

 

 

8.     Find the area of the infield for a professional baseball field. Show all formulas you used. Ch11

 

 

9.     Find the exact volume of a soccer ball. (This one may be a challenge, so be sure to show all work).Ch12

 

 

 

10.  Write a paragraph about the life of M.C. Escher and how his work relates to math.

 

10. Find out when degrees were first used to measure angles. (Or you may write a paragraph about the origins of a different measuring system or tool (compass, protractor, metrics, etc. )

10. Make up 3 more geometry questions where the internet is used to find actual measurements used to solve problems. Be sure to include the answers and URL’s. Which chapters from our book does each question fit with?

 

 

 

Grading Rubric (Assessment Component)

You may earn up to 20 test points for completing the scavenger hunt. All answers must be submitted via e-mail for credit. The following rubric will be used to assess your work.

 

	Beginning	Developing	Accomplished	Exemplary
SCORE	2	3	4	5
Finding URLs	1-3 of the questions have urls listed	4-7 of the questions have appropriate urls	8-9 of the questions have appropriate urls	All Questions have good supporting urls
work	Lack of work shown on most problems (0-2)	Complete for some problems (3-5)	Complete, easy to understand on most problems (6-9)	Complete, easy to understand on all problems
Reasonable answer	1-3 questions are answered reasonably	4-7 have reasonable answer	Reasonable for 8-9	Reasonable answer for all 10 problems
Class Presentation (one question to be presented to class)	Simple 1-step question with little or poor explaination of answer.	Simple 1-2 step question, but well explained	Question has multi-steps	Interesting and well explained, with good math explanation, questions has mult-steps

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Dig Deeper!

You may earn bonus homework points for suggesting additional questions that can be used in a math scavenger hunt in addition to the three questions from #10. You might also check out some other internet scavenger hunts that have already been created.

1.  Scavenger hunts - McAllister  - Internet Scavenger Hunts. ... The following are Internet scavenger hunts written during educational methods and educational technology courses. ...
www.utc.edu/~tpa/mcallister/scavenger.html

2.  Educational Scavenger Hunts  - Educational Scavenger Hunts. Welcome to our web site! On this home page, we have educational scavenger hunts that use web sources to find answers to questions. .
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Resources

1. Online: My scavenger hunt is located at http://geocities.com/jamesojacobs

Some other math resource sites include:

1.       Math Forum - Ask Dr. Math Archives: High School Geometry  - ... Numbers Trigonometry, Browse High School Geometry. We've divided high school geometry into the following subcategories. To search ...
mathforum.org/library/drmath/sets/high_geom.html  search within this site

2.      Geometry Help - FreeMathHelp.com  - ... You can also ask one of these experts for help with your geometry questions: Ask Dr. Math - This is probably the best resource out ...
www.freemathhelp.com/geometry.html  search within this site

3.      Awesome Library - Mathematics  - ... 1-00; Geometry Questions and Answers (Math Forum - Ask Dr. Math): Includes key questions asked by high school students about geometry problems. ...
www.awesomelibrary.org/Classroom/Mathematics/Middle-High_School_Math/Geometry.html  search within this site

2. Offline: You may also consult your Geometry Textbook, McDougal Littell 2001.