Whiteboarding the projectile-motion problems has the potential to be less engaging because many students find these problems easy because they are an application of existing models which which they are familiar. To keep whiteboarding interesting, I introduced the Mistake Game today. Students came up with several believable mistakes to hide on their whiteboards. Here is one where they didn’t use the components of the velocity:
I also want to share this whiteboard which presented the independent of the horizontal and vertical motion so clearly:
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