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Condon, Gregory W.; Landesman, Miriam F.; Calasanz-Kaiser, Agnes – Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, 2006
This article features NASA's FlyBy Math, a series of six standards-based distance-rate-time investigations in air traffic control. Sixth-grade students--acting as pilots, air traffic controllers, and NASA scientists--conduct an experiment and then use multiple mathematical representations to analyze and solve a problem involving two planes flying…
Descriptors: Investigations, Grade 6, Experiments, Problem Solving