Year 1: Teacher's Guide - The Pit and the Pendulum (Interactive Mathematics Program)

ISBN # 1559532548 THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM is one of the five units in Year 1 of the IMP curriculum. Students read excerpts from Edgar Allan Poe's story use graphing calculators to learn about quadratic equations, curve fitting.... finally they actually build a 30 foot pendulum to test their teeory. ... The IMP (Interactive Mathematics Program) has created a four year program of problem-based mathematics that replaces the traditional Algebra 1- Geometry-Albegra II/Trigonometry-Precalculus sequence that is designed to exemplify the cirriculum reform called for in the Curriculum and Evaluation Standards of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics The IMP curriculum integrates traditional material with additional topics such as statistics, probability, curve fitting and matrix algebra.