Spike Prime - Fractions with Gears
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Let's begin
Fractions...
Build
Model:
Pictures:
Building instructions:
- Fractions with Gears - version 1 - Basic (PNG)
- Fractions with Gears - version 2 - Rotated Gear Frame of v2 (PNG)
- Fractions with Gears - version 3 - Even More Slow (PNG)
Download building instructions:
- Fractions with Gears v1 - basic (pdf)
- Fractions with Gears v2 - Rotated Gear Frame of v1 (pdf)
- Fractions with Gears v3 - Even More Slow (pdf)
Download stud.io model:
- Fractions with Gears v1 - basic (stud.io)
- Fractions with Gears v1 - Rotated Gear Frame of v1 (stud.io)
- Fractions with Gears v3 - Even More Slow (stud.io)
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Connections:
- motor - B
- light sensor - A
Programs
Download:
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Measure, analyze, think
- Make your own recording
- Perform experiments with your model and discuss in your group what has happened.
Explore and modify
- Pick one of the three versions, build it
- Make your own drawing of the gear systems (i.e. on paper)
- Write down the numbers of teeth on each pair of the gear wheels
- Figure out the ratio of each pair of gear wheels
- Make or calculate your guess about the final ratio of gear wheels
- Perform measurement with the model and program and compare
- Try to invent some other combinations of gears, repeat the whole procedure with them (this can be an alternative project for an advanced group instead of the above)
- Could you list all the possible combinations using these 8 gear wheels that could be built?
Present
- Think about a manual transmission in cars, how does it work? And how does automatic transmission work?
- What do fractions have to do with the car transmission?
- Is it only the speed of rotation that is being changed in the gear box? What else?
Additional resources
- Download: Fractions with Gears - all media files
