Ideas/Measuring Trees With Special Right Triangle Formulas:
- In order to complete the task given to ask, we were asked to find the measurements of a palm tree located outside our school. Thus, we all had different ideas we wanted to incorporate into this discussion.
- Some students in our classroom decided to throw the tape measure in hopes to get the height of the tree. Although, this did not work since the tape measure is only 25 and it kept falling down from the tree.
- Another idea was wrapping the tape measure around the trunk of the tree and obtaining the circumference. Although, this did not work because we were not accurate.
- One of the weirdest ideas were to chop the tree down and obtain the height this way. Another idea was to climb up the tree but our teacher advised us not to do so.
- We had an idea of doing proportions in order to figure out the height of the tree with a triangle but this did not work out either.
- Another student had an idea to use the height of another student (5 feet) and make approximate ratios of the height of the tree.