Math In Creating A Marble Roller Coaster

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Math in creating a marble roller coaster.

You ll be creating a homemade marble run and exploring what happens to the marble as you make changes to the track. It s similar to how a roller coaster works this activity correlates with next generation science standards kindergarten. I used this marble roller coaster activity to kick off our discussion of kinetic and potential energy in physical science. Your marble must not fall off until it gets to the end of the track.

You may tape your run to furniture. Let s begin by measuring the speed your marble can attain. The energy becomes kinetic energy when the marble rolls down the hill. To keep roller coasters on the track make sure to do the math.

The mathematics of. As it rolls it gains speed and momentum. The roller coaster starts with an initial drop usually a very high hill so the coaster gains enough speed. Rolling downhill later in this activity you will make roller coasters for marbles out of foam pipe insu lation.

Build a roller coaster with 2 hills and one loop. Gravitational potential energy and kinetic energy. Using only these materials and tape each group had to create a roller coaster that included one loop. Build your own marble roller coaster in this project and find out.

This activity gives students hands on experience with several mathematical and physical concepts in the development of a safe roller coaster. Each group received one six foot piece of tubing and one marble. Background roller coasters rely on two types of energy to operate. You ll need two lengths of pipe each about 1 8 meters long some tape a calculator a stopwatch and measuring.

Your marble must land in the cup at the end of the run.