Math in the News: Issue 78--Salvaging the Costa Concordia
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Math in the News: Issue 78--Salvaging the Costa Concordia

Math in the News: Issue 78--Salvaging the Costa Concordia

September 2013. In this issue we look at the impressive engineering effort in raising the Costa Concordia, a cruise ship that sank off the Italian coast. This provides an opportunity to study vectors in the context of physics.

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Common Core Standards CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.HSG.GMD.A.3
Grade Range 6 - 12
Curriculum Nodes Geometry
    • Surface Area and Volume
        • Surface Area
        • Volume
Copyright Year 2013
Keywords costa concordia, sunken ship, engineering, vectors, torque