9.2 Paper aircraft flight distances

On the way to work the idea of throwing the paper aircraft off of the mezzanine crystalized when the resolution to the lack of a pre-existing population mean was realized to be having the students predict the flight distances. 


The mezzanine is very nicely appointed at this time.


The students were asked to guess distances in feet as this would be the measurement system with which they are most familiar.


To help the students visualize the space, the above image was prepared. Note that lanai is a Hawaiian word. The student union has roughly the layout of a nahs, a U shaped two level structure. The equivalent place in a nahs is called either nan kadei (towards the high titles at the front) or nan pahpei (towards the back, towards the apwin dies). Note that these are 1978 old system spellings. Reference the Pohnpei cultural documents specifically page five and eight. 



The tape measure is anchored by the Tripltek directly under the mezzanine railing.


Karen releases her plane


Although the wind was barreling through the middle of the building, the airplane opted to take a dive.

The class was gathered around the U shaped mezzanine.

The edge of the lanai is out between 15 meters and 16 meters as a set of two steps

With the lower step at 15.52 meters from the mezzanine


And the upper step at 14.91 meters.


Kerryanne and Raeshawn assisted with retrieving paper airplanes. The dart design went 1600 meters, just off the lanai. 


Desmos

Note that the 95% confidence interval for the actual sample mean flight distances did not capture the predicted (pseudo-population) mean. The loss of going from being wrong to being right was offset by the class simply being fun.

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