Audience
Educators
Grade Levels
Grades 5-8, Grades 9-12
Subject
Mathematics, Space Science, Algebra, Problem Solving, Universe
Type
Lesson Plans / Activities
With the 11 sets of problems in this section of the Year of the Solar System guide, students analyze and extrapolate data, apply unit multipliers, work with scientific notation, and evaluate functions to understand how NASA searches for planets beyond the solar system.
The Search for Planets: Discovering New Worlds [784KB PDF file]
This document is part of the Year of the Solar System — Real-World Math guide.