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Accuracy, Precision and Errors in Navigation: Getting It Right!
| Content Provider | TeachEngineering: STEM curriculum for K-12 |
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| Author | White, Jeff Lippis, Matt Axelrad, Penny Zarske, Malinda Schaefer Yowell, Janet |
| Copyright Year | 2004 |
| Description | Students investigate error in the context of navigation because without an understanding of how errors can affect your position, you cannot navigate well. Introducing accuracy and precision develops these concepts further. Also, students learn how computers can help in navigation. In this lesson, students investigate error. As they learned in earlier activities from the Navigation unit (lessons 1 through 3), without an understanding of how errors can affect your position, you cannot navigate well. Introducing accuracy and precision develops these concepts further. Also, students learn how computers can help in navigation. Often, the calculations needed to navigate accurately are time consuming and complex. By using the power of computers to do calculations and repetitive tasks, one can quickly see how changing parameters like angles and distances and introducing errors affects the overall result. |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Rights Holder | Regents of The University of Colorado |
| Subject Keyword | Earth and Space Geometry Measurement Calculation Navigation Approximation Precision Trigonometry |
| Content Type | Text |
| Time Required | PT45M |
| Education Level | Class VII Class VIII Class IX |
| Resource Type | Notes |
| Subject | Geometry Structure of the Earth |
