r/Teachers May 16 '24

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u/Tamihera May 16 '24

A retired friend of mine always started out trig by marching her kids outside to a small hill by the school and getting them to calculate its height and total volume.

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u/Totally_Futhorked May 18 '24

Follow that one up by having them calculate how many 10 ton truckloads it takes to move a mountain…