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An Archive of Math Problems

These pages contain a collection of mathematics, science, and reading activities, featuring topics from solar and space science. You may also find problems that use data from various observatories, inluding Hinode, Hubble, and Spitzer. For the complete collection of activities in solar science and astronomy, visit our Previous Problems, Sorted by Category page or the Image Education Center's Space Science Problem of the Week.

This Week's Problem(s):

Problem 140 Black Holes VII [PDF] - Grade level: 7 - 10 If you fell into a black hole, how fast would you be traveling? Students use a simple equation to calculate the free-fall speed as they pass through the event horizon.
[Skills: scientific notation, working with equations in one variable to first and second power]

Problem 139 Mars Orbiter: How Big is It? - Mars [PDF] - Grade level: 4 - 7 Students use an image of a crater wall on Mars to investigate ancient water gullies discovered in 2008 by the Mars Orbiter.
[Skills: image scales, metric measurement, division and multiplication, decimals]




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