Last time | Next time |
Within your groups you will exchange homeworks. Put your name on your colleagues homework, and you will
annotate (or amend) that homework throughout today's discussion.
Then give it to me at the end.
Understand | Plan | Carry out | Evaluate |
Make different units consistent |
Calculate Pace and compare (Would this competition be over if Thomas's were better?) |
$5000 m = 3.106856 miles$ | |
Weather, Course, etc. | Compare to Champions from their time (or around their time -- a distribution), and their class? |
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Same high school? Yes, Bowling Green | |||
How do classes and divisions compare? | |||
We'd like more times from each (a distribution). |
Our objective today: to formulate a plan, so that by Friday you should have carried it out to reach our conclusion.
Collins adds an important unstated part to Polya's strategy: simplification (which would fall into the Planning part of Polya's UPCE).
Thad (1980) | Distance: 2.5 mile course | Best time: 13:30 |
Thomas (2019) | Distance: 5000 meters | Best time: 17:15 |
It might help to know Boys State Tournament Individual Champions for Ohio over time.