Quest 8 | Digging Up Holes

Objective

How did the campers at Camp Green Lake arrange their holes? Use Snap! to draw two different circle-packing arrangements, square and hexagonal. With the circles representative of a birds-eye-view of the desert floor where holes are being dug in an attempt to bury treasure, you will run a simulation to see which arrangement uncovers the treasure most reliably.

Goals

COMPUTER SCIENCE

Use "count" variables to iterate loops over their prescribed ranges.

Debug code that uses a multitude of loops, conditionals, and other functions.

GEOMETRY

Master the calculations required to find the area and circumference of circles and their parts (sectors, arcs, segments, chords).

Standards

GEOMETRY

CCSSM

G.C.2, G.C.3, G.C.5, G. CO.6, G.SRT.2, G.SRT. 8, G.GPE.4, G.GPE.5, G.GPE.7, G.MG.1

COMPUTER SCIENCE

CSTA

2-AP-10, 3A-AP-17

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