EngageNY
Why Are Vectors Useful? 1
How do vectors help make problem solving more efficient? Math scholars use vectors to represent different phenomenon and calculate resultant vectors to answer questions. Problems vary from modeling airplane motion to the path of a robot.
EngageNY
Vectors in the Coordinate Plane
Examine the meaning and purpose of vectors. Use the instructional activity to teach your classes how find the magnitude of a vector and what it represents graphically. Your pupils will also combine vectors to find a resultant vector and...
CK-12 Foundation
Vector Addition
View vector addition with a greater magnitude. The interactive provides learners with the opportunity to determine the magnitude of vectors and their resultant vectors when added. Pupils investigate the relationship between the...
Curated OER
Resultant Forces
A series of examples and activities about how forces have effects on objects. The data given on each slide includes force magnitudes, particle direction and the questions require the class to calculate the resultant vectors. The...
Curated OER
Vectors
Students describe motion by the use of adding vectors to obtain the resultant vector. They comprehend the meaning of a resultant vector. Students identify the difference between the x and y components of vector quantities. Students...
Curated OER
Visualizing Vectors
Investigate vectors in standard positions and use the CellSheet application on the TI calculator to find the sum of two vectors. Convert from polar to rectangular coordinates and vice versa, and show graphs of the vectors.
Curated OER
Vectors
Represent motion with arrows and call them vectors! The lesson is a presentation that models the mathematics involved when determining a resultant vector. It addrssses motions that are parallel, perpendicular, and a combination of both.
CK-12 Foundation
Two-Dimensional Vectors: River Ferry and Current Vectors
Fight against the current. Pupils explore the resulting path when they are crossing a river while being pushed downstream by the current. Using vector notation, learners express the speed and direction of a ferry. They finish by...
NTTI
Vectors: Traveling, But in What Direction
High schoolers watch a video of real-world situations regarding speed, direction, velocity, force, etc. and answer questions while viewing. They then practice drawing and using vectors to solve more real-world problems.
Curated OER
Review of Vectors
In this physics worksheet, students complete 50 multiple choice questions on vector addition. They calculate displacement and resultant vectors.
CK-12 Foundation
Multiplying Matrices by a Scalar: Column Vectors
Make connections between vectors and matrices through multiplication. Scholars use the interactive to view the effect of multiplying a matrix by a scalar. The interactive displays the resulting matrix and its corresponding column vectors...
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
West Nile Virus: Vectors and Hosts Game
The spread of an infectious disease can be a complicated process. Using a game approach, learners reenact the spread of the West Nile virus. They learn the need for the vector in transmitting the disease and how different organisms react...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Swim the Open Sea: Analyzing Duel Vectors
This dual vector lesson has the class watch a video about a person's swim of the English Channel. The class then uses a computer program to analyze dual vectors of wind's effect on a flight path of a plane as compared to the water...
Curated OER
Vectors: Follow That Arrow
Vectors and their connection to motion. A video will be presented to provide information for the class to use methods of solving vectors with and without grids. Real-world physical concepts will be explored in reference to vectors.
Curated OER
Vectors: How Much Force Can You Apply
This lesson entails the viewing of two videos to get an overview of force and its application. The lesson covers how vectors use force in real-world situations.
Curated OER
Adding Vectors
In this vectors worksheet, students solve 8 problems given each vector in kilometers and their degree. Students indicate the magnitude and direction of the resultant vector.
Curated OER
Adding Vectors
In this vector worksheet. students solve six vector problems. In four of the problems kids add three vectors together to get the resultant vector and in two of the problems students add four vectors together to get the resultant vector.
Urbana School District
Vectors
I don't always make vector jokes, but when I do, IJK. Vector addition using multiple methods, scalar multiplication, vector subtraction, vector components, relative velocities, free body diagrams, and so much more Are covered in this...
CK-12 Foundation
Matrix Multiplication: Vectors
Visualize matrix multiplication on the coordinate plane. Pupils use the interactive to create a matrix multiplication problem using vectors. The scholars see the resulting product of the matrices as a vector.
Curated OER
Vectors
Students describe a complex path by the use of adding vectors. They comprehend the difference betwee scalar and vector quanitities. Students disucss the naviagation lab. They are explained the procedures for the lab. Students are...
Curated OER
Vectors
Young scholars are introduced to the bridge building challenge. They perform two labs and work in small groups to finish the vector worksheet. Students review vector additions. They then move onto the Forces on an Inclined Plane Lab. ...
Curated OER
Vectors
Students describe a complex path by the use of adding vectors. They are explained the procedures and rules of the balloon car race. Students are remined that the summary and answers to the questions are due Monday. They are given the...
Curated OER
Vectors
In this Algebra II worksheet, 11th graders find the sum of a pair of vectors. The two page worksheet contains a combination of nine multiple choice and free response questions. Answers are included.
Curated OER
Adding Vectors
In this vector worksheet, students solve 6 problems. They are given two drawn lines labeled vector 1 and vector 2. Students draw the resultant vector.