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Murawska, Jaclyn M.; Nabb, Keith A. – Mathematics Teacher, 2015
Sometimes the best mathematics problems come from the most unexpected situations. Last summer, a Corvette raced down a local quarter-mile drag strip. The driver, a family member, provided the spectators with time and distance-traveled data from his time slip and asked "Can you calculate how many seconds it took me to go from 0 to 60…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Problem Solving, Word Problems (Mathematics), High Schools