Keep your hands on the wheel—at all times! Scholars learn why pilots use a flight computer through a high-flying demonstration. Making calculations for speed, distance, or time is automatic if you know how to use a flight computer. 

Concepts

speed, time, distance, distance formula, solving equations

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Additional Tags

math

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Instructional Ideas

• Have learners to write a paragraph explaining how the flight computer works
• Ask a local pilot to come for the lesson and demonstrate how to use the flight computer

Classroom Considerations

• Builds on previous knowledge of direct variation equations
• The first in a series of three lessons
  

Pros

• Adaptable to different subjects and grade levels
• Includes an opening exercise

Cons

• None

Common Core

HSA-CED.A.4 MP1 MP5