This is an engaging and fun activity on finding the area of oblique triangles using Heron’s area formula. Students have to calculate the area of 12 triangles. Then students search for their answers in a table given in the next slide and find the names of 12 asteroids which are corresponding to their answers. The names of the asteroids are among the names of else 16 astronomical objects (stars, satellites of Solar System’s planets, lunar craters). Students can type the number of each triangle in the empty text boxes provided in the table. I have included short information about all astronomical objects mentioned in this activity.
I hope this activity stimulates your students’ interests in both math and astronomy.
Answer keys included.
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