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Suiting Up

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Title:

Suiting Up

URL:

https://www.ck12.org/c/calculus/concept-of-limit/rwa/Suiting-Up/?referrer=concept_details

Content Source:

Other
CK-12

Type:

Informational Material

Overview:

Humans thrive and survive within a narrow range of air pressures. When air pressures are out of this range, we have more physical problems. What happens when humans go into space? How have engineers made it possible to survive when air pressure approaches zero?

This informational material will relate the precalculus concept of limits of functions using a real-world issue--engineering astronaut spacesuits. There are embedded videos within the text.

Content Standard(s):

Mathematics MA2019 (2019) Grade: 9-12 Precalculus	7. Determine numerically, algebraically, and graphically the limits of functions at specific values and at infinity. a. Apply limits of functions at specific values and at infinity in problems involving convergence and divergence. Unpacked Content
English Language Arts ELA2021 (2021) Grade: 11	8. Read, analyze, and evaluate texts from science, social studies, and other academic disciplines and explain how those disciplines treat domain-specific vocabulary and content and organize information. Unpacked Content Teacher Vocabulary: 8. Academic disciplines Domain-specific vocabulary Content organization Knowledge: 8. Students know: Strategies to read, analyze, and evaluate texts from various academic disciplines. Content-specific text will often include a particular structure and domain-specific vocabulary. Skills: 8. Students are able to: Read, analyze, and evaluate texts from subjects other than English language arts to determine the use of domain-specific vocabulary. Read, analyze, and evaluate texts from subjects other than English language arts to determine how the academic discipline organizes content. Understanding: 8. Students understand that: Different academic disciplines may utilize different vocabulary. Different academic disciplines may arrange content in particular organizational styles.
English Language Arts ELA2021 (2021) Grade: 12	8. Read, analyze, and evaluate texts from science, social studies, and other academic disciplines and explain how those disciplines treat domain-specific vocabulary and content and organize information. Unpacked Content Teacher Vocabulary: 8. Academic disciplines Domain-specific vocabulary Content organization Knowledge: 8. Students know: Strategies to read, analyze, and evaluate texts from various academic disciplines. Content-specific text will often include a particular structure and domain-specific vocabulary. Skills: 8. Students are able to: Read, analyze, and evaluate texts from subjects other than English language arts to determine the use of domain-specific vocabulary. Read, analyze, and evaluate texts from subjects other than English language arts to determine how the academic discipline organizes content. Understanding: 8. Students understand that: Different academic disciplines may utilize different vocabulary. Different academic disciplines may arrange content in particular organizational styles.

Tags:

air pressure, asymptote, end behavior, engineer, function, graph, limit, limit notation, precalculus, vocabulary

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Accessibility

Video resources: includes closed captioning or subtitles

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Author:

Hannah Bradley

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Suiting Up